Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:09:09 -0500 |
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> > On 02-Feb-99 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > You probably want to go 64-bit, like UltraSPARC or Alpha. > > somebody (it's beyond me) needs to port linux (SPARC or Alpha) to Pentium > is that such a crazy idea? > > i remember reading a paper about a port of UNIX V7 from a PDP-11 to a PDP-11 > (with the two 16bit quantities in a 32bit integer swapped) > this was so they could share a VAX disk > > seems like we need a version of Linux on Pentium which has 64bit quantities > everywhere. call it a "practicing for merced" exercise :-) >
> Call it ridiculous. i386 et al only has 32 bits of linear address > space. It can't work.
> -h> pa
However the PPro, PII, (PIII?) has 36 bit address; if I remeber correctly. That should give plenty of additional memory space.
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