On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:32:02 +0000, T o n g wrote: > Is the 3G memory access limit is the natural one, or something > superficial imposed by M$?
MS allows some versions of Windows systems to bypass such limit on 32 bits machines (by means of PAE and AWE), so yes, nowadays it's fictional. > I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as > well? No, 32 bits architecture can make use of PAE and add/use/address as much as 64 GiB of RAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.06.20.17.26...@gmail.com