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> OS X combines a proven UNIX foundation with the easy-to-use Mac interface to bring multicore technology and 48-bit power to the mass market. 48-bit power?…
by mietek 11y ago
> OS X combines a proven UNIX foundation with the easy-to-use Mac interface to bring multicore technology and 48-bit power to the mass market.
48-bit power?…
- nnutter 11y agoOh Johnny Ivy... you strike again.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoPerhaps that statement refers to the 48-bit x86-64 virtual memory address space.
- microcolonel 11y agoMaybe it refers to PAE and hasn't been updated since they dropped i686?
- ddacunha 11y agoI think they are referring to the address space (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64) > The AMD64 architecture defines a 64-bit virtual address format, of which the low-order 48 bits are used in current implementations.