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[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 24 points 2 days ago

Remember when windows XP could only make use of a maximum of 4GB of RAM?

I put it to you: What has actually improved in the OS for the end user since then?

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

For what most people use their computer for Win95 was already good enough. Microsoft has just been charging for the same old shit since then.

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 19 points 2 days ago

That wasn’t a windows thing only. That was a limit of 32bit machines. They could only address up to 4gb of ram. But there was a thing called Physical Address Extension that kinda faked it being able to address more than 4gb.

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