Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> In theory a 32bit OS can also handle 
> more than 4GB of memory so the limit would be indeed the application

  If I'm not completely mistaken, you can have up to 16 or 64 gigabytes
(I don't remember which) of physical RAM in a pentium or newer processor.
Of course one process can address only 4 gigabytes at a time. (To be able
to use all the memory the processor provides a memory paging system.)

  So indeed, you could even have more than 4 gigabytes of physical RAM,
yet a 32-bit POV-Ray binary could only allocate 4 gigabytes of it at most
(if the OS allows it).

-- 
plane{-x+y,-1pigment{bozo color_map{[0rgb x][1rgb x+y]}turbulence 1}}
sphere{0,2pigment{rgbt 1}interior{media{emission 1density{spherical
density_map{[0rgb 0][.5rgb<1,.5>][1rgb 1]}turbulence.9}}}scale
<1,1,3>hollow}text{ttf"timrom""Warp".1,0translate<-1,-.1,2>}//  - Warp -

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