Re: Alpha remembrance day

Andrew wrote:

....

Sorry wrong again.
At the risk of being pedantic, to be wrong 'again' I would already have
had to have been wrong in the current discussion at least once.


Well if you can point to one single part of this thread where you have
been right then I will be happy to buy you a sweet.

How about the fact that Win2K, contrary to your assertions, indeed *does* support a full 64 GB of RAM? Not that you appear to have managed to understand even that simple a correction below, so I won't bother creating a full (and rather lengthy) catalog of the other instances in this thread where not only I have been right but you have been either dead wrong or utterly irrelevant to the subject at hand.

....

The Pentium may well have supported 64GB of RAM in
1996 but but Windows NT Server 4 never did.
By George, it appears that you may be right for once: I thought that I
remembered some trans-4GB facilities (which Win2K later cleaned up as
its AWE mechanisms) being introduced in some flavor(s) of NT V4, but I
can't find any mention of them right now.

Neither did Windows 2000,
Wrong (again). While Microsoft *nominally* supports only up to 32 GB of
RAM in Win2K Datacenter, had you even investigated the link that you
yourself provided you would have seen that this was because of the lack
of available hardware to test on 64 GB systems, and indeed "Inside
Windows 2000" confirms that the Win2K code supports up to the full 64 GB
system size.

Yup - there it is.


How amusing, it was you who claimed that 64GB was addressable by NT.

Yes, and (as I readily admitted earlier) it appears that my recollection that the last version of NT had support for extended RAM may have been in error (at least I wasn't able to find corroboration with a quick look).

If
you will note I pointed out that this wasn't true for either NT or
Win2K

And, as I noted above, while you may have been correct about NT, you were wrong about Win2K, which (according to the reasonably authoritative "Inside Windows 2000") in fact *does* support up to 64 GB of RAM. For that matter, according to a link from the very Web page which *you* provided as support for your contention that Win2K supported only up to 32 GB of RAM that nominal limit was set only because larger systems did not exist at the time on which to validate the full 64 GB support.

I've finally placed you, Andrew: you're the socially-challenged kid on the playground who's determined to get attention even if he has to goad others into beating him up to get it. The kind who thinks he's scored some kind of moral victory by adamantly parroting the same empty drivel ("I know *you* are, but what am *I*?!" is the meaningless schoolyard comeback that springs to mind) no matter how many times he's first corrected, then jeered, then kicked around.

Which makes this kind of like responding to a 'bot, and not worth any more of my time - especially as anyone still interested has had more than sufficient material from which to draw the obvious conclusion by now.

So long, loser.

- bill
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