{"id":38143,"date":"2004-08-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/08\/18\/why-all-these-articles-about-pae-and-3gb\/"},"modified":"2004-08-18T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T07:00:00","slug":"why-all-these-articles-about-pae-and-3gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040818-00\/?p=38143\/","title":{"rendered":"Why all these articles about PAE and \/3GB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/08\/17\/215089.aspx#215553\"> some unrest in comment-land<\/a> with people who are <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/08\/12\/213468.aspx#213479\"> sick of this whole \/3GB series<\/a>.\n Why have I been spending over two weeks exploring the consequences of the \/3GB switch and exploding various common myths about it?\n Because too many people don&#8217;t understand what \/3GB means but talk as if they do. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/08\/17\/215682.aspx\"> As you saw yesterday<\/a>, there are still lots of people out there that don&#8217;t understand the differences between physical memory, virtual memory, and virtual address space, and end up misconfiguring their computers or treating the switch as magic fairy dust. I&#8217;ve gotten tired of explaining it to misguided person after misguided person over the years, so I figured if I wrote up the explanation and debunkings once and for all, I won&#8217;t have to visit the topic ever again.\n You think <strong>you&#8217;re<\/strong> sick of \/3GB? You&#8217;ve only had to deal with it for two weeks.  Imagine having to explain the \/3GB switch for six years!<\/p>\n<p> At any rate, the 3GB series will draw to a close at the end of the week, assuming everything goes according to schedule. Then there will be other topics for you to be sick of. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t understand what \/3GB means but talk as if they do. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-38143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>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&#8217;t understand what \/3GB means but talk as if they do. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}