In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stephen C. Tweedie" wr
ites:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:16:27 +0000 (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Alan Cox) said:
>
> > 32-64GB is out of the intel arena altogether. You are firmly in mainframe
> > land unless clustering stuff would work. Go set Sun, IBM and SGI bidding
> > against each other and get some third party disk quotes 8)
>
> Any particular reasons why? With 36-bit addressing and 3-level page
> tables, there's no technical reason why Linux won't eventually be able
> to address that much memory on Intel.
Is there any OS that currently does this?
Do you know where in the Intel line 36-bit addressing started?
I'm curious to know of my PPro can do this.
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