• TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is only true if you’re still using a 32 bit cpu, which almost nobody is. 64 bit cpus can use up to 16 million TB of RAM.

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      6 months ago

      This is only true if you’re still using a 32 bit cpu

      Bank switching to “fake” the ability to access more address space was a big thing in the 80s…so it’s technically possible to access addresses that are wider than the address bus by dividing it up into portions that it can see.