Re: Will Prescott work on Win64?

Douglas Siebert wrote:

> You can believe its marketing if you want, but there are already people
> running into limits (which are more like 2GB than 4GB for the way most
> OSes work)  And with RAM cheap enough that it isn't unusual for normal
> people to buy a system with 1GB these days,

Indeed.  Just a couple of months ago I was contacted by some researchers 
who wanted to write > 2Gb unformatted records from their code (just 
because they wanted to dump an array that large at once).

Guess what ?  I have the update for that in my local g77 tree now for 
two months, but I don't dare to commit it, because - on my feeble 256 
Mbyte Powerbook - I can only test that it doesn't break existing code - 
I can't *run* a program that does what those people want.

My next system has to have more than 4 Gbytes (probably 6 is a good 
number) and I need it in 2004, because otherwise I'll routinely depend 
on others to run my tests.

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