14 Feb
2014
14 Feb
'14
7:49 a.m.
On 02/13/2014 06:19 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
Back to the toy operating systems, and they're
deliberately hobbled to 32 bit
physical addresses too. If you want more than 3GB of RAM in Windows, you have
to upgrade to 64 bits.
I suppose theoretically you could bank-switch in as much as you wanted in
64KB chunks, into one specific spot of the memory map, and the software to
access it - at least from user-land - probably wouldn't be too complex. An
acre of two of 6264 SRAMs and decoding logic, and a power supply the size
of a house to run it... (at least you'd stay warm)
[0] Of course, all versions of Windows are primitive
*rimshot*
:-) I quite liked 3.x, it did what I expected a GUI to do while not
feeling intrusive. Everything since has been an exercise in adding features
that I don't need, but can't uninstall (thankfully I only ever have to use
it once every couple of weeks or so).
cheers
Jules