Towards the end of 32 bit’s life, physical address extension allowed operating systems to use more memory, often up to 40 bits worth, but still could still expose a 32 bit address space to user applications.
Towards the end of 32 bit’s life, physical address extension allowed operating systems to use more memory, often up to 40 bits worth, but still could still expose a 32 bit address space to user applications.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Yes, but that would only get the total up to about 5GB, which isn’t very much more.
bamboo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
2^40 is a terabyte