22 Nov
2012
22 Nov
'12
6:57 a.m.
On 20 November 2012 22:02, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
There are probably cases of
certain OSes refusing to run because the host platform has _too much_ RAM,
but I'm struggling to think of any right now.
Win95 tops out quite low - 512MB of RAM or something like that, and I
think some timing loops fail on a machine of over 500MHz or something.
Ref:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/14/54640.aspx
Win98 struggled with over 768MB of RAM but that was fixed in 98SE, I think.
Ref:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912
Ah, apparently *all* the Win9x codebase struggles with approaching a gig.
For some of them, you can't /install/ with more than a certain amount,
but once it's running you can put the extra RAM back in.
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