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You're probably thinking of PAE (36 bit physical address space on 32 bit virtual address space). But Intel for quite some time had a 36 bit physical address spa
by bonzini 1y ago
You're probably thinking of PAE (36 bit physical address space on 32 bit virtual address space). But Intel for quite some time had a 36 bit physical address space limit on 64-bit consumer processors, even if the virtual address space was 48 bits. I think it only changed 5 years ago or less.