Showing results for August 18, 2004 - The Old New Thing

This is another non sequitur. PAE increases the amount of physical memory that can be addressed by the processor, but that is unrelated to virtual address space. (Remember that PAE stands for Physical Address Extensions.) PAE increases the physical address space (the address space that the CPU can use to access the memory chips on your computer) ...

Apparently there is some unrest in comment-land with people who are sick of this whole /3GB series. Why have I been spending over two weeks exploring the consequences of the /3GB switch and exploding various common myths about it? Because too many people don't understand what /3GB means but talk as if they do. As you saw yesterday, there are ...