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>When did 5 GB of RAM become severely limited? I believe around the year 2000 AMD announced AMD64 and Intel spent years insisting nobody needed 64-bit on the d

by tw04 5y ago

>When did 5 GB of RAM become severely limited? I believe around the year 2000 AMD announced AMD64 and Intel spent years insisting nobody needed 64-bit on the desktop. Then promptly got trounced by AMD for years after they finally released an AMD64 based desktop and Intel scrambled to create a netburst CPU with 64-bit capabilities. So, a long time?

rowanG077 5y ago
That is system wide. A far cry from per process 5GB limit. I can't imagine a IPad pro toy app ever needing more then that. All of the things you'd need more for you cannot do on an Ipad.
- merlinscholz 5y ago
  Not necessarily, with PAE you were limited to 4gb per application while having more systemwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
- nwallin 5y ago
  No. Starting with the Pentium Pro, 32 bit x86 could leverage up to 64GB of physical RAM using PAE. (Physical Address Extension) x86-64 was created to address the 3GB (or 3.5GB, or 2GB, depending on the OS configuration) process limit.
- jjeaff 5y ago
  You can do quite a bit more than "toy apps" on an iPad. Photoshop and 4k video editing come to mind.