MR <a### [at] bnet> wrote:
: but i'm thinking about upgrading the desktop and i would
: like to know if there is a maximum amount of memory
: that windows ME or 98SE can use.

  In theory the memory limit in P-II and newer is (AFAIK) 64 GB (I don't
remember if the 4 GB limit was increased in P-II or in some previous processor,
but that's not so important here).
  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...)

: i've also heard that the bios on the motherboard can be
: a limiting factor.

  I think there was a limit in some motherboards on how much memory they
will cache (memory above that limit can be read but it's not cached). I don't
know if it's any issue nowadays.

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