Re: 32 bit vista can't address more than 3.1-3.5 GB RAM

"Ilgaz Öcal" <ilgaz_ocal@xxxxxxxxx> stated in post
5ta4nhF1ckup0U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/24/07 9:23 AM:

On 2007-12-22 23:02:08 +0200, Snit <CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

"Jesper" <spambuster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
1i9jjbb.8b3wm1hxq73uN%spambuster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/22/07 1:22 PM:

Of a modern OS, Vista is surprisingly oldfashioned: 32 bit vista fails
to access more than 3.1-3.5 GB RAM. M$ wants people to buy their
expensive server solutions to run apps requirering more than approx 3.1
GB of RAM. Furthermore 64 bit vista is unable to run 32 bit apps. In
Leopard the support is seemless!

I got 4 GB of RAM for my Mac and just took it for granted that modern OSs
would accept it with no problem. Amazing.

If Apple did the insane mistake of directly adopting "PC" architecture
instead of EFI kinds of things, this could be the case on Intel Macs
too. No kidding.

MS is not alone to blame on that 3.2 GB thing, it is part of the
archaic PC architecture too. Even Intel could be to blame on those
things.

Well, if it really was Intel then Apple would be stuck in the same boat now.

How could PPC G5 Machine of mine, while being 64 bit could happily run
32bit OS with 32bit apps happily? Because PPC was designed to be 64bit
in future.

If I had a PC with 4+ GB of RAM, I would run Vista 64bit edition and
would demand my Apps to be ported to 64bit. Now, Windows users buy
32bit Vista in 2007 and whine about memory, it is part of the PC
culture. Just see how fast Leopard incompatible apps gets updated for
Leopard, that is part of the reason why we don't mess with such archaic
issues. Developers know Apple won't care about their App working so
they sit and recompile/recode for Leopard.

I know out of 200+ apps I had for OS X 10.4 I had only a small number that
had to be updated - and they all were quickly... most before I even made the
switch. The one that was not that I wanted I emailed the author and an hour
or so later he emailed me an update to test. Worked flawlessly.

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