On Monday 27 January 2003 06:27 am, robin wrote: > et wrote: > >just so you know, "virtual memory" means different things to differnet > > people and different OSs, so if you are reading about cpu registers and > > mem pages, that is one thing, but the way M$ products handle memory is so > > different from other OSs and in some books the wording looks as if the M$ > > way of looking at memory is _the_ way. > > On the subject of memory, would converting a Celeron box to Linux bypass > the problem that Celeron chips in Windows canonly utilise a certain > amount of memory? We have a Celeron with 32MB of RAM, and have been > told there is no point in adding RAM because the chip wouldn't be able > to access it. > > Sir Robin
ROFLMAO!!!! Ummm, as far as I know, some MOTHERBOARDS have limits on memory, but it is not bound to the processor used. The Motherboards that support Celeron all support at least 128M, unless you are using a celeron-driven control device (why would that not surprise me?) like unto the SIMM and DIMM devices of Arcturus. Anyway, linux handles memory so differently from Windows that indeed the 512Mb limit of 95 and 98 is easily breached, and linux tends to run faster the more memory you add up to 1 Gb, at least. After that, the memory model supported gets a little more taxing in overhead, but once past that, the speed again tends to increase with additional memory. But I would like to meet the person who told you it was pointless to go beyond 32Mb with a Celeron. I know someone who has this bridge for sale, you see, and he could make a BUNDLE with toll booths on it.... Civileme
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