Weird Al's song released in 1999 [1]. I don't think it was possible to buy a desktop/workstation/server machine in 1999 with 100gb of addressable RAM. So the ly

Weird Al's song released in 1999 [1]. I don't think it was possible to buy a desktop/workstation/server machine in 1999 with 100gb of addressable RAM. So the lyric is absurd (possibly intentionally so). The first 64 bit Pentium system went to market in 2004. With 32 bit systems the maximum memory addressable per process is 4gb; this could be stretched to 64gb with PAE [2]. It might have been possible to get a 64gb RAM pentium-based server in 1999. But 100GB is simply impossible. There were 64 bit processors from other families available in 1999. DEC, SGI, and Sun all had workstations using 64 bit processors. The earliest I can find supporting 128gb of RAM though is the SGI Origin 3800, shipping in 2001. [3] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_with_Scissors_(%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic_album) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_with_Scissors_(%22We... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension [3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_3000_and_Onyx_3000#Onyx_3000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_3000_and_Onyx_300...