Re: 32 bit vista can't address more than 3.1-3.5 GB RAM
- From: Lefty Bigfoot <nunya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:50:35 GMT
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:31:24 -0600, Snit wrote
(in article <C3952CEC.9EF0A%CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
"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.
It depends upon the chipset chosen. Quite a few of the intel
chipset families will consume upward of 512MB of the 4GB address
space for device configuration (PCI-E, PCI-X), and bookkeeping,
not supported a true 64-bit address space, even though targeted
at 64-bit processors. This is mainly on the low-end consumer
chipsets.
--
Lefty
All of God's creatures have a place..........
..........right next to the potatoes and gravy.
See also: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif
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