> Thus, I would argue that if the OS provided some functionality to move allocated pages in and out of the 32 bit address space of a process to enable the process to use more than 4 GiB of memory ...
Oh, no. Back then the segmented memory model was still remembered and no one wanted a return to that. PAE wasn't seen as anything but a bandaid.
Everyone wanted big flat address space. And we got it. Because it was the obvious choice, and the silicon could support it, Intel or no.
Oh, no. Back then the segmented memory model was still remembered and no one wanted a return to that. PAE wasn't seen as anything but a bandaid.
Everyone wanted big flat address space. And we got it. Because it was the obvious choice, and the silicon could support it, Intel or no.