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Re: Hello

On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 02:55:51AM +0200, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:12:21 +0200, "Manfred Spraul"
> <masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de> said:
> 
> > * I haven't yet read the new Xeon page table extentions,
> >   but perhaps we could support up to 64 GB memory without changing the
> >   rest of the OS   (Intel could write such a driver for Windows NT,
> >   I'm sure this is possible for Linux, too).
> 
> NT's VLM support only gives you access to the high memory if you use a
> special API.  We plan on supporting clean access to all of physical
> memory quite transparently for Linux, without any such restrictions.

Not even the restriction that a single process cannot use more than 
4GB-something?


-Andi
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