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From: "George Kinney" <goober AT mail DOT net>
Subject: Re: Linear Framebuffer with 4 GB RAM
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
References: <199708050010 DOT UAA03674 AT delorie DOT com>
Organization: The Unknown Programmers
Message-ID: <01bca16a$c3c7fc80$ea8033cf@pentium>
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Date: 5 Aug 97 06:32:14 GMT
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Conrad Wei-Li Song <conradsong AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu> wrote in article
<199708050010 DOT UAA03674 AT delorie DOT com>...
> >Actually, the only problem there is addressing...
> >
> >that's NOT a joke!!
> 
> Yes, and that's also no where near 2^64... Well, wait.  2^64 seems a
little
> small: 1.8E19.  Hmmm, is it supposed to be 128-bit addressing when every
program
> in the universe can have it's own address space?  Somebody help!

Well, whatever amount of memory you get, M$ will certainly bloat it away.
Just imagine all of the animated buttons you could fit in a terabyte,
must make you know who sweaty with anticipation. :)


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