Micah Gersten wrote:
>Linux can already address all the RAM on a 32 bit system with PAE. The
>advantage of 64 bit with regards to RAM is that a single process can
>address more than 2.5 - 2.7 GB of RAM.
True, what I meant was processes on Linux will be able to address more.
Good catch.
Even wi
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:39:40 -0800, James Colannino wrote:
>I could be wrong, but I'll bet anything that Wine made use of the now
>defunct vm86 component of the x86 architecture. [...]
Yes, I believe that's true, and that it's not available when you compile
for x86-64. However... why? If you rea
Ross McKay wrote:
> One restriction I know (knew?) of is that you can't run DOS programs
> under Wine on 64-bit, but then... why?
I could be wrong, but I'll bet anything that Wine made use of the now
defunct vm86 component of the x86 architecture. That allowed the CPU to
implement a "virtual mac
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:32 -0600, Micah Gersten wrote:
> Ross McKay wrote:
> > You'll also use a little more RAM due to pointer and integer sizes.
> > However, Linux will be able to address more RAM on a >3GB system.
> >
> Linux can already address all the RAM on a 32 bit system with PAE. The
Ross McKay wrote:
> You'll also use a little more RAM due to pointer and integer sizes.
> However, Linux will be able to address more RAM on a >3GB system.
>
Linux can already address all the RAM on a 32 bit system with PAE. The
advantage of 64 bit with regards to RAM is that a single process c
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