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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 08:50:05 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Linear Framebuffer with 4 GB RAM
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On 31 Jul 97 at 22:38, Conrad Wei-Li Song wrote:

> >I guess that overlapping is the most simple way to workaround it, but you must 
> >wait some time before the people start to use 4Gb on PCs.
> >
> By the time 4GB of RAM becomes more standard, we'll all be in 64bit
> addressing. With 64bits there's no way you can run out of memory.

That's what they said about 20 bit addressing :)

Bill
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