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From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 13 Jul 2010 14:23:57
Message: <4c3caf3d$1@news.povray.org>
>> What I can't figure out is how it's possible to put 23GB of RAM into a
>> single PC. AFAIK, nobody makes motherboard that can do that...
> 
> It's probably virtualized, which lets you configure any odd amount of 
> memory you want, pretty much.

It *is* virtualised, but if the RAM doesn't physically reside on the 
same system, you're going to see a jaw-droppingly *vast* performance 
drop. (Which would kind of negate the whole point of those multiple CPU 
cores...)

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