From:	loafman AT gte DOT net (Kenneth Loafman)
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Subject:	Re: Linear Framebuffer with 4 GB RAM
Date:	1 Aug 1997 20:13:19 GMT
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On Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:38:15 GMT, Conrad Wei-Li Song
<conradsong AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu> wrote:

>>I guess that overlapping is the most simple way to workaround it, but you must 
>>wait some time before the people start to use 4Gb on PCs.
>>
>By the time 4GB of RAM becomes more standard, we'll all be in 64bit addressing.
>With 64bits there's no way you can run out of memory.

Maybe by the time we get to 64-bit addressing, we'll be well away from
the brain-dead Intel architecture with its segments and non-orthogonal
instruction set.  When I first saw this machine in 1981, I knew it would
fail Computer Architecture 101.  How it made it this far is frankly an
amazing feat!

...Kenneth

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