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Old 31st October 2013 | 21:58
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Mike-Bracknell
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Originally Posted by CATIII-NDB
XP's biggest limitation is its Memory address handling.

Microsoft could, if they had so wished, implemented 32 bit physical address extension. As supported by AMD & Intel on the Pentium Pro since mid the nineties.
You're kidding, right?

Did you ever try Windows XP-64? The issue there was not the memory address handling.

Originally Posted by mad_jock
For the majority of home users they will only change when the computer stops working.

They will not pay to upgrade.

For a lot of small business users this will be the same.
For a lot of Scottish small business users maybe. Personally, i'm down to my last 5 users (all of whom will move to a terminal services solution when their XP desktops die).
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