It seems what we might consider common knowledge is not so common, even among our peers.
On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Laban Mwangi wrote:
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/category/software-illustrated
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Peter, I wish your friend was right, but he is not. Just ask him why modern
> computers come with beefier RAM amounts while there is a "physical ceiling"
> imposed by an older Mac book pro, O.k? It would make more economic sense to
> have a Gb of memory since it keeps machines cheaper if we were to think like
> him, isn't it?
>
> As @Dennis mentioned, you need to have a processor with more than 32 bits to
> physically be able to access memories of higher than 3Gb on a computer hence
> the shift to 64 bit computing to modern machines and faster servers.
>
> Martin.
>
> On May 4, 2013 11:18 AM, "Dennis Kioko" <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to state that I own no Macbook.
>>
>> Some OS do have address extensions, known as PAE, that enable 32 bit
>> kernels to handle 4 GB of RAM.
>>
>> Somehow related, Google does offer 1 Gbps of fiber, where your download
>> speeds are usually limited by the write speed of your HDD.
>>
>>
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