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tslim:
Not really accurate - a 32-bit CPU and OS can only address 4Gb at any one time. You can use an offset to point to that 4Gb if you want to but, for example, when you are looking at the 4Gb starting at 64Gb you can't see the 4Gb at 16Gb.
-Carol Haynes (November 06, 2009, 08:04 PM)
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Hi Carol Haynes, your example is not right.
No matter how hard I try with my eyes, I can only see about 120 dgree of the world in front of me, but if I turn around I can see the whole world... well, even if I don't turn around, with a mirror, I can see what is in front and at the back of me at the sametime :P
Carol Haynes:
So you are saying my example is right because you can only see behind you when you turn round and then you can't see what you were looking at ;) Using a mirror is cheating (swine)
40hz:
So you are saying my example is right because you can only see behind you when you turn round and then you can't see what you were looking at ;) Using a mirror is cheating (swine)
-Carol Haynes (November 09, 2009, 06:20 PM)
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:Thmbsup:
(Remind me not to get into a debate with you should the occasion ever arise! )
tslim:
So you are saying my example is right because you can only see behind you when you turn round and then you can't see what you were looking at ;) Using a mirror is cheating (swine)
-Carol Haynes (November 09, 2009, 06:20 PM)
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Hi Carol Haynes, still, your example is NOT right.
4G is the limit of 32bits, at a particular point of time. But even for a time=t, this limit does not have anything to do with how the 4G is laid. i.e. if I have N mirrors in front of me, I can see N+1 different angle views, though they all add up within the 120 dgree limits size... (when a mirror is placed in front of me, it blocks what is behind it)
Well, may be mirror is kind of cheat, but it is useful... and the world can't do without mirror, right? :-*
Carol Haynes:
Sorry but 32 bits can only address 4Gb - you can fudge it by adding offsets (mirrors) but it is a fudge. PAE is a fudge. You aren't physically addressing more than 4Gb at any one time it is like having a book - you can view any double page but you can't see 4 page at once - unless you use mirrors!
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