August 20th, 2004

The curious interaction between PAE and NX

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Carmen Crincoli covered the interaction between PAE and NX on his own blog, so I’ll merely incorporate his remarks by reference.

(And notice again the concession to backwards compatibility. Without the backwards compatibility work, XP SP2 would have shipped with NX support and an asterisk, “* and those of you who have device drivers that are not PAE-ready will not be able to take advantage of these new security enhancements. We could’ve done something to make your systems secure, but we decided not to do it in order to teach you a lesson.”)

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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