Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk | Date | 2 Feb 1999 00:52:14 GMT |
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Followup to: <19990202110924-cameron-1-08707@ixus.research.canon.com.au> By author: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > ASIC people too, and they really do want it as generic buffers. > > Here (my workplace, not zip) we're readily getting into ASIC simulation work > which wants buckets of memory. Intel boxes are cheap CPU and if/when our > design tools get ported to Linux we would probably be very happy to have > 2G+ of RAM. > > Of course, that only gets us to 4G. It may be that when we get well > over 2G we'll want to step straight to a 64bit platform (like the > Ultras we're running now anyway). >
No, you can never get to 4 GB -- in fact, getting more than 2 GB is probably impossible for you.
You probably want to go 64-bit, like UltraSPARC or Alpha.
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