[OM] Re: Megapixels

[Manuel Viet]

Le jeudi 03 Novembre 2005 18:38, Robert Swier a écrit :
> You're right that in the past machines have been built that supported
> memory addresses that were longer than the length of an integer register in
> the processor. But systems built more recently prefer to have a single
> integer register contain an entire virtual memory address. 

I'm afraid you're wrong. Even basic x86 after 1st gen. pentium had provisions 
to treat more memory than 32 bits pointers. Look for intel PAE on google. 
IA32 limit, PAE enabled is 2^36 (that's 64 GB).

-- 
Manuel Viet

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