Re: Can XP cope with 2gb of RAM

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All Things Mopar <nunofyour@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Today Tim Slattery commented courteously on the subject at
hand

All Things Mopar <nunofyour@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

The max that Windoze can use right now is 4 gig, of which
it steals the top gig for itself.

You're confusing physical RAM with the virtual memory space
made available to processes.

I'm not confusing anything, Tim. A mobo, and Windoze, can
handle 4 gig of memory. It is phyiscal as it is installed, it
only becomes one of many forms of virtual memory as Windoze
bastardizes it's inefficient memory handling. My point was and
is that of the 4, Windoze hijacks/steals/"reserves" the top
gig for purpose or purposes unknow.

That isn't true. And Window's memory handling is not inefficient.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx
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