Warp wrote:
> 
> [...]
>   In practice some OS's have a 4 GB or 2 GB limit (due to 32-bit architecture).
> I don't remember what was the limit in Windows 9x, but it could be that 2 GB
> (this is caused by the OS using signed integers, which halves the maximum
> value). I don't think there's any worry about having 1 GB of memory (AFAIK).
>   (Of course Windows may have some braindead limit on how much memory a single
> process can allocate at a time which is much less than 2 GB; I faintly
> remember something like that...)
> 

As i heard Windows 9x has serious problems with anything more than 256 Mb
(!!!). Windows NT/2000 should be able to use up to 2 Gb for Applications
(the upper 2 Gb are reserved for the system) Of course this is no first
hand information, only what i have heard.

From my own experience i have the impression Linux handles larger amounts
of memory much better than Windows.

Christoph

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