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Re: MartyPC

in PC Emulation
GloriousCow wrote on 2023-12-12, 16:06: 0.2.0 is just addressing a LOT of technical debt from bad design decisions - it's my first emulator, after all, I wasn't going to design things right the first time. Yea, isn't that the thing with software engineering... You need to build something to figure …

Re: Win XP 32 or 64 bit?

PAE is not Windows 2003 Server feature. PAE is a CPU feature obviously. It's just what different editions of Windows do with it. Only some of the Server editions (Advanced Server, Enterprise, Datacenter) use it to break beyond the 4 GB address barrier. Others do use PAE, but mainly because of other …

Re: Win XP 32 or 64 bit?

That one came out before the "Professional x64 Edition," was a big flop, and got discontinued in just three years. After all most Itanium users were big enterprises running Unix, while consumers simply didn't want an expensive system that couldn't run most consumer software. The Itanium version had …

Re: Win XP 32 or 64 bit?

It does support more than 4 GiB of memory, I assume? That would probably have been an advantage for some people at the time? It does. Also, since it's a 64-bit OS, it doesn't need to map the kernel and drivers into the 32-bit address space. So where XP x86 can only allocate a 2 GB address space to …

Re: Win XP 32 or 64 bit?

XP 64bit was released after windows 2003, it is based off of 2003 and was released so devs and enthusiasts would have a 64bit workstation OS. Indeed. Technically XP x64 was not the same as XP x86. The internal version number of XP x64 was higher (5.2 instead of 5.1), since it was based off a newer …

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