Norman Dunbar wrote:
> Up to XP at least, Windows 32 bit can address only 4GB of memory.

Not entirely true, using a processor feature called PAE (Physical
address extension) some Windows server version can address more memory
(up to 64GB). But in practise this will not help you because
applications have to be specifically written for this (anybody
remember the EMS memory expansions cards of old yore? Or EMM386.EXE?
The principle is similar).

> However, this is split into 2 GB for the user processes in total,
> and 2 GB for the 'kernel' processes. It is completely useless to put
> more than 4 GB into a Windows machine for this reason.

True.

Marcel

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