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From: Sylvain Robitaille on 8 Mar 2007 13:45
peter.fastre(a)gmail.com wrote:

> ... I thought there was, because 32-bit systems can't address more
> than 4GB of RAM, ...

Are you sure of that limitation? 32-bit data does not necessarily mean
32-bit address-bus ... the following is from an IBM xSeries 335, with
two Xeon processors:

: clyde[syl] ~; cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 9.1.0
: clyde[syl] ~; cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 8482922496 7852670976 630251520 0 289021952 6529085440
Swap: 3758944256 48283648 3710660608
MemTotal: 8284104 kB
MemFree: 615480 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 282248 kB
Cached: 6340244 kB
SwapCached: 35816 kB
Active: 504760 kB
Inactive: 6687052 kB
HighTotal: 7470000 kB
HighFree: 558716 kB
LowTotal: 814104 kB
LowFree: 56764 kB
SwapTotal: 3670844 kB
SwapFree: 3623692 kB

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Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca

Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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