[nylug-talk] LOWMEM vs. HIGHMEM performance advantage?

[Peter C. Norton]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:02:36PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> Why do we still have this ancient DOS ritual?
> 
> Ruben

1) Because the kernel reserved too much address space back when 32mb
   was big.

2) Because PCI is 32-bits, x86 from pentium2 on has bank-switching
   capabilities to make it sort-of 36-bits.

-Peter

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