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How much memory can win 9x address
Name: Ellis Date: January 3, 2002 at 21:11:04 Pacific
Comment:
Hmmmm - Let's see what comes back...
a.) How much in total b.) How is it divided up
It's just that I've been in so many arguments over this - and I finally found the original statement published by MS...
Name: ;) Date: January 3, 2002 at 21:28:46 Pacific
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a: 3.7469357 terabytes ??????
B; 2 sticks on a four slot Mobo ??
;)
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Response Number 2
Name: dragonsnake Date: January 3, 2002 at 21:42:09 Pacific
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the operating system can adress far more memory than most computer systems can. there are bottle-necks in the hardware configuration that limit the amount of ram that can be used at one time. so the way i understand it;the chain is only as strong as the weakest link;the system will run no faster with twice the amount of ram as the bottle-neck limit figure. what da ya think? ds
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Response Number 3
Name: Ellis Date: January 3, 2002 at 22:15:05 Pacific
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re:
the operating system can adress far more memory than most computer systems can.
So, how much?
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Response Number 4
Name: rk Date: January 3, 2002 at 22:24:56 Pacific
Name: Dave357 Date: January 3, 2002 at 23:03:18 Pacific
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But limit the cache to 512 MB.
Dave
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Response Number 6
Name: ;) Date: January 3, 2002 at 23:11:43 Pacific
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Yups,, addresses out to Uranas and back, but two 512meggers can be "Insufficient Memory to Initialize Windows".
Go figger!!!
;)
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Response Number 7
Name: Ellis Date: January 4, 2002 at 06:58:39 Pacific
Reply:
Would you believe you're all wrong - (and I can point you to the technical document that states it.)
The OS can address up to 4 Gigs (it's truly a 32 bit OS - 2 to the power of 32 is: 4 Gig)
Each 32 bit application can address up to 2 Gigs of memory.
By the way the document was published by Microsoft, just as the articles posted above were. Interesting sh--, no wonder we all have different opinions.
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Response Number 8
Name: Ellis Date: January 4, 2002 at 07:07:23 Pacific
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This is not the technical document I referd to above - but, in perusing the KB for another problem I found another interesting reference to it.
For your reading enjoyment - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q181594
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Response Number 9
Name: WhitPhil Date: January 4, 2002 at 07:17:53 Pacific
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If you want to see it graphically, see this link and scroll to Memory Paging.
Summary: You need to read the motherboard manual. If you dont have this then go to the motherboard manufacturers web site and download it. This will tell you the type of memory you need, and how much you can p...
Summary: purchagent, I am not 100% sure about this but I think that Win 95 can address 4GB of memory. The question isn't how much memory can Win 95 address but how much the motherboard can hold, but more impor...
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utility to show RAM speed...
