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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:41:16 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: Hello
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To: Manfred Spraul <masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de>
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Hi,

On Sat, 1 May 1999 16:00:01 +0200, "ak@muc.de" <ak@muc.de> said:

> Due to the 32 bit addressing, you can't use more that 4 Gb memory
> at the same time.
> I think you could create several memory mapped regions,
> each e.g. 1 GB and map one at a time. 

Indeed, and that is what (for example) NT's VLM allows.

--Stephen
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