• Dave.@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    Remember when windows XP could only make use of a maximum of 4GB of RAM?

    I put it to you: What has actually improved in the OS for the end user since then?

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      13 hours ago

      For what most people use their computer for Win95 was already good enough. Microsoft has just been charging for the same old shit since then.

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      1 day ago

      That wasn’t a windows thing only. That was a limit of 32bit machines. They could only address up to 4gb of ram. But there was a thing called Physical Address Extension that kinda faked it being able to address more than 4gb.