On 28-Oct-99 Mike Smith wrote:
>
>> That´s why I´m looking for a way of having large mmap´able
>> files. Are you saying that ALL Intel CPUs, including PIII, can only
>> address 4 GB?
>
> That's correct; it's why the ia32 architecture has a '32' in its
> name.
Note quite. With PAE (Page Address Extensions available on PPro's and
some later chips) you can get an extra 4 bits, for a total of 36 bits
of addressable space, or 64 Gig. That still won't help out very much,
however, for this problem.
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