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<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><hr><b>From:</b> K O [mailto:wpos2@roadrunner.com]<br><b>To:</b> nflug@nflug.org<br><b>Sent:</b> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:08:58 -0400<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [nflug] AMD64 Debian 'Etch' Stability<br><br><br>
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David J. Andruczyk pisze:<br>
> 64 bit OS's are needed for only the few reasons:<br>
> 1. you have more than 4 GB of ram, AND you want your processes to be able to address all of it (Databases, high performance virtualization, VMware ESX, Xen, etc)<br>
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Then I wonder: what is the logic of going thru the trouble of making a <br>
motherboard that will accept a 64 bit processor but no more than 2 GB of <br>
RAM? Sounds like a decision driven by marketing to reel in guinea <br>
pig/fools like me, much like with Windows ME. (Fortunately, I see past <br>
the latter.) Perhaps Speed Step has the potential to fill in somewhat.<br></blockquote><br>Sounds like the motherboard I have for my Desktop (running Windows 2008 with 2 Ubuntu Server VMs in the mix <G>).<br></body></html>