Chatter Of The Squirrel

WinXP’s memory problems

June 4, 2008 on 10:39 am | In Tech |

Operating systems based on Microsoft Windows NT technologies have always provided applications with a flat 32-bit virtual address space that describes 4 gigabytes (GB) of virtual memory. The address space is usually split so that 2 GB of address space is directly accessible to the application and the other 2 GB is only accessible to the Windows executive software.

Here’s a reason why you installing too much RAM is useless when you’re still running Windows XP. Haven’t really verified this. Gotta check it with Kidd when I see him next. Haha… Won’t he regret not building an AMD64 X2 machine like I did.

Yarr, I have random drivers problems with running 64-bit Windows… But I’ll always know that I have the option to use more RAM, if I ever run anything that needs that much RAM…