Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 18:03:20 EST




--On Sunday, October 30, 2005 22:26:05 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Iau, 2005-10-27 at 18:20 -0400, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
>> Dude, again. This has nothing to do with the CPU. The arch IA32 is simply
>> _not_ made for 4GB, so, some motherboards manufacturers make a workaround like
>
> Wrong IA-32 supports more than 4Gb in PAE 36bit physical 32bit virtual
> mode and has done since the Preventium Pro

Indeed ... I have 64GB ia32 boxes ;-)

M.

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