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SubjectRe: 4GB RAM WHY????
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 10:44:45PM -0400, Smc659@aol.com wrote:
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> > Why do we need access to 4GB RAM? If your gona run databases that need that
> > much use more powerful computers that have support for it. Maybe IBM AIX????
> > Thats what we use at GTE. I thought I saw support for this in 2.2.11 or
> > maybe that was 2GIG. Plus the only MB's I have seen only support 1024MB.
>
> Maybe at GTE. The market is *crying* for large memory support on i386.

If the market wants to see it in the official kernel, it should send us a
patch that does it cleanly. If the market has any sense, it'll quickly
realize that it can't be done cleanly, at which point the market will
decide to invest in a nice 64-bit machine.

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