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by Szpadel 1694 days ago
> 64-bit computer with a 64-bit Windows can handle so much RAM memory as 192 GB!

Can anyone explain from where this number comes from?

on 32bits you can address 4GiB, but using 64bits you are able to address 16EiB 38bits is enough to address 256GiB so 192GiB doesn't look like any technical limitation

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Just licensing from what I understand, historically if you patched the licensing limitations higher amounts of RAM always worked fine.
Honestly, the idea of licensing influencing how much of your hardware you can actually use seems like an ass-backwards concept to me.