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Why 32bits OSs can't address more than 3.2/3.2 gb of memory?
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Don't know if this is the right place to ask this question. I've been reading that 32bit OSs (like the Ubuntu i'm running right now) can't adress more than 3.2gb or 3.3gb of RAM memory. I remember for my old Computer Architecture course that the memory limitation was 2^32 "pointers" (don't remember…
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Windows uses some of the hardware addresses meant to address memory, for other hardware (like USB, SATA, Disk Controllers, whatever). So some of those hardware addresses cannot be used for your memory. Hence the limit. To my knowledge, Unix/Linux CA…
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