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Subject: [OM] Re: Old computers - Geeks and nerds
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:08:58 -0700
Ian Manners wrote:
> .... Mind you, different MS people always gave different answers to the same 
> question back then :-)
>   
Nice to know some things never change.

There's a whole community of open source and related people out there 
who believe that Vista SP1 will save them. None of the third party C/C++ 
compilers produce executables that can access more than 32mb of memory* 
under Vista. It appears to be an arbitrary limitation.

A single email from someone identifying himself as a MS guy or 
contractor working on some aspect of Vista and saying that SP1 would 
lift the restriction is being quoted back and forth on various websites. 
I couldn't find a single reference on the official MS sites. The last 
beta didn't, of course, change anything.

It is, of course, no problem for those with MS compliers or compilers 
that link to the MS libraries. :-(

Moose

Remember when Bill Gates said no one would ever want more than 64kb of RAM?

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