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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (159387)2/20/2002 1:31:57 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Beamer - Re: "Up to 6GB of memory -- Excellent for large databases"

Oh yeah - 36 bit addressing !

But the last 4 bits require the use of segment registers - right?

Shouldn't hey be able to use up to 68,719,476,736 bytes with all 36 bits?

Paul



To: wanna_bmw who wrote (159387)2/20/2002 9:02:25 AM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Re: So much for the 4GB barrier problem, I guess.

I've posted before that X86-32 supports segmented addressing and that Windows advanced server supports 64 gigabytes of physical memory. But when you have all that memory on one shared bus, the system stands a good chance of just sitting there and churning, instead of doing more work than than a less expensive system with fewer processors.


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