That probably wasn't well stated. It would probably require some 64 bit
virtual machine hypervisor to manage the multiple 32 bit instances of
Windows. Maybe that's 64 bit Windows itself. I dunno. I'm sure that
Microsoft will be sure to charge us for each copy. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised that 64 bit processors running
> in 32 bit mode could somehow virtualize up to a 4GB chunk of memory for
> their own use. But I should think that would entail multiple instances
> of Windows with each running on their own processor. I haven't paid any
> attention to Intel machine architecture in about 10 years. Probably too
> complicated for me now.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Jez Cunningham wrote:
>> I once saw a comment that a dual (or quad) core processor can use 3GB per
>> core - can anyone confirm that?Jez
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
>> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> 32 bit Windows won't use more than 3GB of that without some cryptic
>>> settings changes but at the price who cares if there's an unused 1GB of
>>> RAM.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
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