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icebraining
on July 14, 2012
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Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB ...
You need to ask the OS to remap your address space to different area of physical memory. Windows has the Address Windowing Extensions[1], which allow processes to reserve multiple blocks of memory and switch between them.
[1]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Windowing_Extensions
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[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Windowing_Extensions