What ever happened to Terasolutions?

[Oliver Fromme]

Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme writes:
 > > (In other words:  PAE might enable you to use RAM >= 4 GB,
 > > but your processes will still be limited to 32bit address
 > > space.)
 > 
 > Thanks for the pointer.
 > That is a good reason to go AMD64 if one has apps which will require lots of 
 > RAM, although I can't think of any program I use ever needing 4GB+ for a 
 > single program. 

An app doesn't necessarily have to require lots of RAM
to benefit from 64bit address space.  For example, a
certain database process might benefit from accessing,
say, 8 GB in its address space, but only actually using
2 GB of physical RAM.  Such a process runs fine on a
machine with 2 or 3 GB RAM, but it has to be a 64bit
system.  It won't run on a 32bit system, even if it had
8 GB RAM or more (accessed via PAE).

Best regards
   Oliver

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