On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:52:22 -0400, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:41:24 -0500, Terry Porter wrote:
>
>> I've just read that Vista32 can only use 3GB of RAM and Vista64 is
>> limited to 4GB of RAM, what's up with that ?
>>
>> Windows ... which RAM limitation would you like today ?
>
> Wow, how can you make such bald-faced lies like this when they're easily
> disproved?
It's Terry Porter, that's why.
Remember "The Terry Porter School of Networking (Not working if you
prefer)" ?
> Both 32 bit Linux and Vista have precisely the same limitations, they both
> support 3.xGB of ram because a certain supset of the last gigabyte is
> reserved by the PC architecture for memory mapped device I/O. In other
> words, the hardware maps it's own memory into those spaces and thus the OS
> cannot use that physical memory.
>
> In 64 bit Linux and Vista, the full 4GB (if you have 4GB installed) because
> the memory mapped I/O can be mapped outside the 4GB physical memory space.
>
> No version of 64-bit Vista is limited to less than 8GB, which Home Basic is
> limited to. Home Premium is limited to 16GB, and all others are 128GB.
>
> So why the bald-faced line Terry?
Because Terry Porter the "Ben Hur of COLA" hasn't a clue.
Some things never change.
I think Roy has competition.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
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