RE: Address spaces on a i386 - Getting Confused

Peter Svensson (petersv@psv.nu)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 16:37:38 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Eric Lowe wrote:

> Agreed. From what we've seen, most PCI devices running on 64-bit systems
> are already going 64-bit.
> The problem of 32 bits on >4GB will probably be isolated to Intel. Why
> would someone put an older, $50 board in a $10k workstation anyway?

Many sepcialized pci-devices are only made as 32-bit cards. The cost of
developing a new card only to make a few of them is often prohibitive.
When 64-bit architectures are the norm this will probably change.

Peter

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