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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (28179)	6/24/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Nadine - Robin has a good point. Standard NT is a 32 bit OS with a 4GB address space, of which only 3GB can be used by an application. DEC Unix can address 18,446,744,073GB - a little more than 3. As I stated earlier, the benefits to database operations are a performance increase of more than a thousand times, in some applications. But you are also correct, the point of the exercise is to demonstrate NT capability, and so there will probably be some 'special' work like they did for the Oracle/Alpha systems to allow NT to use the large memory. Don't look for enterprise scalability any time soon on NT - late 99 at best given current schedules at MSFT. CPQ may be able to help them improve that date a little.