Wasn’t there a bug that made XP unable to hit even 4GB, I seem to recall a limit of 3,5GB ram…
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Even the older Windows XP managed 50 tabs, and that’s because it kept crashing past that number because of its paging file failing to keep up, not because it had hit the 5GB memory ceiling.
Windows XP 32bit can’t hit 5gb memory ceiling, the 32bit memory addresses don’t allow that
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Short answer, no, there were artificial limitations to ensure compatibility. Plenty of long-form answers if you care to search.
Decq@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It was 3.2GB and afaik it wasn’t a bug, but 800MB was reserved for hardware IO
carrylex@lemmy.world 3 days ago
PSA: In the video (not the retarded posted article that has 0 proofreading) it’s stated that he used Windows XP 64 bit
TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 3 days ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
Not at release. It came later though for certain chipsets.