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to: Dave Ings
from: Bill Lucy
date: 2002-12-28 23:51:54
subject: Re: Next year for 1 GB ram as std?

From: Bill Lucy 

Out of darkness, Dave Ings says...
> Someone at work recently pointed out to me that we are getting awfully close
> to the 4G (32 bit) architectural limit on RAM, which exists in consumer
> class Pentium based hardware ... and with the apparent lack of interest by
> just about anybody in Itanium, no apparent path beyond this is either
> hardware or MS software.
>
> Anybody aware of what Intel and/or MS are planning in this regard? Whatever
> their plans are, they don't seem to be making much effort to publicize them.
> Perhaps Intel is still trying to figure out what to do with Itanium.

The AMD Hammer series will allow a larger limit. I don't recall what it is though.

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