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To: Paladin2

32-bit XP which was arbitrarily limited to 4 GB of RAM

Not arbitrary. A 32-bit system is limited to to 2^^32 memory addresses; i.e., 4 gigabytes. 64 bits gets you up to 128 Gbytes.

48 posted on 07/19/2026 7:04:58 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny

To: IndispensableDestiny

Quibble/quabble…

64 bits is a nice “round” number in bit world….

50 posted on 07/19/2026 7:48:41 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)

To: IndispensableDestiny

Does anybody need more than 640k bytes of memory?

53 posted on 07/19/2026 8:04:56 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)

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