On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:48:11PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > > If you need a larger amount of UVA space, you might want to consider
> > > buying an IA64 machine, instead, since the bigger your iron, the
> > > bigger your KVA space requirements will be.
> > 
> > What, no UltraSPARC?  :) :) :)
> 
> Unfortunately, my SPARC machine is not an UltraSPARC machine, and
> I wasn't aware of whether or not snapshots were being created for
> it or not at this point, so I limited myself to talking about what
> I knew to be true.
> 
> I knew not to recommend the Alpha because it is limited to 2G
> of physical memory.

? 

FreeBSD is limited to using 2G of whatever you have in the Alpha.
Which is a deficiency that has been debated a number of times,
IIRC it needs bus space work etc. See the archives..

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