Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 1996 23:47:10 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: kcore and memory questions |
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On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Systemkennung Linux wrote:
> Hi, > [...] > For the current implementations the absolute limits are the 36 bits > address bus (== 64GB) and 1TB virtual addrss space for user programs. This > shouldn't really be a limit for anyone (no, don't mmap your TB raid array ...) > but iff there is room in the architecture to grow the user address space up > to 2^63 bytes (8 Exabytes), the physical address space up to 2^56 bytes (64 > Petabytes). Numbers that are pretty insane huge ... >
Don't say that, those are famous last words (rember that a certain Gates is supposed to have said that 640k is enough for anyone ...).
> Ralf > Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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