Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 08:50:05 +1100 From: Bill Currie Subject: Re: Linear Framebuffer with 4 GB RAM In-reply-to: <199708010244.WAA28488@delorie.com> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <199708032054.IAA12677@teleng1.tait.co.nz gatekeeper.tait.co.nz> Organization: Tait Electronics Limited MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Precedence: bulk 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 -- Leave others their otherness.