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From: Dexter Tomisson
Subject: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 11:52 am

I'd really, really like to know what's the matter with a larger memory
support?

Why is 'bigmem' still not default? What faults/bugs does it still has?

What do you need to make it ok? Do you need a hardware donation to make that
better,
do you need few bucks, do you need a good coder to improve that, or again
some license problems perhaps?,
what's the problem, share with us please, I'd really like to help with
everything i can.

I hope, maybe someday, our beloved Puffy will catch up to the 21st century.

Regards.

deX


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From: Bret S. Lambert
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 12:12 pm

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:52:50PM +0300, Dexter Tomisson wrote:

"It's the future, where's my goddamn flying car?"


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From: Dexter Tomisson
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 3:43 pm

No,
"640k ought to be enough for anybody"



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From: Kyle Drake
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 4:22 pm

Touchi.

-Kyle

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Dexter Tomisson <dextertom54@gmail.com>


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From: Jacob L. Leifman
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 4:35 pm

My first programming primer (Fortran ... them days) had a very concise 
delineation of the difference between neat programming and the much 
more common alternative -- "given a big enough engine, even brick will 
fly". I never cared for the american "muscle" cars but was always 
fascinated with the slick european sports cars. I guess that is the 
same attraction I have for OpenBSD. I also find that the currently 
popular obsession with CPU cores, GHz and GBs is nothing more than the 
computer version of the muscle car. (yes, I am aware that there are 
specialized applications that do require the use of a monster-sized 
dump truck with an engine to match, but in reality how many places have 
a genuine need of a database that even with fully optimized design 
requires that much physical RAM?)



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From: Johan Beisser
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 5:40 pm

I can name a couple right off the top of my head.


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From: Brad Tilley
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 12:47 pm

Your multicore, mega-memory box with its 12 jabillionbyte hard disk


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From: Jason Beaudoin
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 5:58 pm

maybe I haven't been on this list long enoug.. but it seems like 2010
has been the year of the troll, first update to the chinese calander
in ages..




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From: Adam M. Dutko
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 6:15 pm

Maybe it's more attributable to increased interest and the increase has
brought a proportional increase in what you call "trolls."  More noise is
distracting but has "fringe" benefits...sometimes...

On Jun 7, 2010 9:01 PM, "Jason Beaudoin" <jasonbeaudoin@gmail.com> wrote:

maybe I haven't been on this list long enoug.. but it seems like 2010
has been the year of the troll, first update to the chinese calander
in ages..



On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Dexter Tomisson <dextertom54@gmail.com>


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From: Gonzalo Rodriguez
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Monday, June 7, 2010 - 7:02 pm

don't feed the trolls



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From: Helmut Schneider
Subject: Re: It is 2010. Still no >3GB support by default?
Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 12:16 pm

If [1] is correct and I fully understood it I counted 12 trolls and
only one single person being able to answer OPs question. And it took
him only one single URI.

Indeed, 2010 seems the year of the troll.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

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No Swen today, my love has gone away
My mailbox stands for lorn, a symbol of the dawn


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