Re: 64 Bit operating system trends

Mike Swaim wrote:
I never heard your explanation before. For what it is worth: I got a
middle of the road motherboard with 4GB memory. And windows reports
4096 available.

Cool. Here's where I first heard about it.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html

Interesting. Some older chipsets that do support 64bits CPUs, but still
have a 32bit bus will exhibit this problem.

So for 4+GB memory support one needs:
- 64bits OS
- 64bits CPU
- A motherboard with a modern chipset that supports at least 8 GB of
address space.

This last item is also mentioned by MS here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us

Jan Derk
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