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by garaetjjte 530 days ago
>Unless you want to map more than 4 GB in a single process, you could very well stay 32-bit.

Provided you are not bothered by highmem. https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=76912&curposti...

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I didn't notice who wrote that initially, and was getting annoyed with his failure to notice that it's not HIGHMEM.SYS, it's HIMEM.SYS.

But why should Linus, even in 2007, use Win9x in the 21st century?