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To: Joe NYC who wrote (85760)	7/25/2002 1:32:22 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Re: they are already talking about 4 GB barrier It's really more of 2 to 3.5 gigabyte barrier. Windows reserves 1/2 the address space for the OS, limiting each application to 2 gig. You can get by that by running multiple instances or apps (well, some applications benefit from it, anyway), but you still lose about a 1/2 gig of physical addresses to devices - drivers for which were written with the assumption that there was plenty of address space available. There's really not much of a point in getting more than 3 to 3.5 gig of RAM in an X86-32 machine. For most applications, 2 gig is all that will really be used. Any machine that is expected to be useful for the next 4-5 years (which seems to be the new length of the upgrade cycle) should be a 64-bit machine.

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