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[filmscanners] Re: Digital Darkroom Computer Builders?
David writes:
> The 32-bit architecture of the CPU in user
> mode has nothing to do whatsoever with how
> much physical memory the OS can handle.
It has everything to do with how much memory a process can directly address,
however.
> ... Anthony's claim that handling more memory
> than an individual instruction can access is both
> innefficient and difficult is wrong on both
> counts.
Try processing tables that straddle address-space boundaries, and you'll
see.
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