On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:44:27 +0200, Arnold wrote:
So the question for support of more than 4GB by the HAIKU OS is about the same as: Where were you when Bill Gates told the world that 640 kB of RAM was enough for everyone?
Except 4GB *should* be enough for anyone. I'm not expecting any applications that could use over 4GB on Haiku before R1 is out. My Linux machine has 6GB ram... and I have trouble filling that even with multiple virtual machines spun up. Anyway, the logic above is why there hasn't been a lot of x86_64 workthus far. Which rounds me out to my original point.. if you need it, code
it. :) I'm the first to note that multiple architecture support is positive on a healthy project, it keeps everyone writing portable code. Just look at my PowerPC code and the number of people while roll their eyes every time I make commit to openfirmware/* :P -- Alex