Windows 7 or vista..?

[theAnonymous1]

Originally Posted by PB2

I believe that you can hack XP and Win7 to support more than 4GB with a fairly simple registry change:
Make Windows 7 and Vista 32-bit (x86) Support More Than 4GB Memory » Raymond.CC Blog

Actually, the link is for 7 and Vista only. The auther states he doesn't know of a hack for XP.

Either way, thanks for the link. Will be putting 7 on my laptop soon with 4GB RAM.

[PB2]

Yes, right in the title it says Win7 and Vista - not XP. And reading a bit more it looks to be a kernel patch, not just registry changes.

If you want to really know if you are running out of memory, or need more memory, you can disable virtual memory under the performance tab. I did this on a 4GB Vista system, got distracted I actually just wanted to try if for a short period of time, and went for 2 days before I ran out of memory. I had Opera open, Open Office, a schematic editor, IE, LTSpice, and probably a few more things - then ran out of memory. It warned me, then the mouse stopped working, seems the Kernel decided that the mouse driver could go when running out of memory.

Interesting that the Kernel paged even with Virtual memory turned off. Seems there is a registry hack to turn off Kernel paging.

I don't think memory is a real limitation for most users.

[5th element]

Originally Posted by star882

In other applications, however, it can make for a big difference. I remember that the exact same version of D2X-XL ran at about 100FPS when compiled for 64 bit as opposed to only 60FPS in 32 bit.

So I'm not the only one who still plays that

[planet10]

Originally Posted by MJL21193

6809E processor

Of the dozen + assembler languages i learned, 6809 was my favorite (except for the rare FORTH processor i had -- assembly language was FORTH), i coded single & double presicion floating point routines for it during an EE work term

At some point i had a CC too.

dave

[Geek]

I never played with the 6809.

But going from the register oriented 808x and Z80 to the memory oriented 6502/6510 was a learning curve.

Cheers!

[Iain McNeill]

Originally Posted by planet10

i coded single & double presicion floating point routines for it during an EE work term
dave

double precision, heh heh, heh heh, heh heh,

[planet10]

Originally Posted by Geek

I never played with the 6809.

But going from the register oriented 808x and Z80 to the memory oriented 6502/6510 was a learning curve.

I liked 6809 because it had stacks... (and since i started on an HP calculator -- i still can't use those bass-acward calculators that have "=" signs)

I didn't really like Z80/808x. Didn't get a whole lot of opportunity to do much with 6502.

dave

[human.bin]

yes people what a need do we have for 64 bit native hardware/software?

... i don't even think those things called computers will ever have a market interest...

[human.bin]

have you all noticed out?

YouTube - What is Google Chrome OS?

(for all of you who were or are geeks, just search for chromiumOS there's a repository with the beta)

[Netlist]

There's even more.
Google releases Chrome OS source code | Relevant Results - CNET News