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Thread: Windows 32bit only acknowledge 3.5GB ram?

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    Nice link

    I love this

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    So I am partially right... it has nothing to do with Windows 32bit operating systems, it is the hardware! BUT you really only do get around 3-3.5GB ram... I can deal with that, thanks for this I am going to keep that info around!

    if what I just said is wrong please tell me, but that is what I got out of it.
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    Great question. Got me curious... I installed 4 GB on my machine. BIOS shows 4 GB, but Windows XP (SP2) shows 3.49.

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    2003 server shows 4188812 with 4gigs physical memory...page file is approximately 2 gigs...total memory 6112592.

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    Something that we found a few weeks ago, because we noticed a 64bit desktop in our systems reports (not our current standard), 64bit XP will utilized all 4 gigs of physical memory on a 32bit system bus.

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    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

    some classic quotes here

    I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address base for applications within—oh five or six years people were complaining.
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