Thread: What happens with 4Gb RAM under XP?
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Old 25-01-2008, 12:11 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: What happens with 4Gb RAM under XP?
Originally Posted by Thorsson View Post
1. It's not XP, it's any 32-bit OS.
Aye, its 4Gb natively, but almost all other 32bit OS's support PAE. Even Windows 2000 (Intel Physical Addressing Extensions (PAE) in Windows 2000) which allows addressing far above 4Gb.

XP has PAE purposely locked out sadly.
Mad isn't it?
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