Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later
setsubyou@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago32-bit systems could only handle 4 GB of RAM
I don’t understand why people always say that. Pentium Pro could handle 64 GB even though it was a 32 bit CPU. It had a 36 bit address bus. Later models are the same.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
People say it because it was a Windows limitation, not a computing limitation. Windows Server had support for more, but for consumers, it wasn’t easily doable. I believe there’s modern workarounds though. The real limit is how much memory a single application can address at any given time.