Re: PC components
Tony Langdon <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:19:04 +1100
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At 04:42 PM 12/18/2005, you wrote: >64-bit doesn't get much in extra speed for most apps. It is good for large >data problems such as video or databases, or it can be as simple as making >tar files a few gigabytes in size for backing up lots of data (2GB is the >limit for 32-bit systems iirc). Actually, many filesystems support > 2GB file sizes under 32 bit Linux. It is documented on the Net, and I have done it myself on 2.4 and 2.6 kernel based systems on 32 bit PC hardware 73 de VK3JED http://vkradio.com