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Where are the Large RAM Systems?
CaptCanuk asks: "I've been charged with finding a system with 16 GB of memory and have had a really hard time in acquiring one (especially with a PCIE 16x slot). Linux is at the forefront of these 'large system memory' systems and beyond beta versions of Windows XP, is the only OS that supports the 64 bit memory addressing required to use this much RAM. When I asked large beige box wholesalers, I'd get comments from 'Why do you want a 16GB harddrive...you want MEMORY? are you sure?' to 'No motherboard supports more than 4GB of memory; everyone knows that'. Where are these mythical large memory systems? Do you think such workstation configurations will become pervasive in the future? Will it take Microsoft's Windows XP 64 bit to legitimize their existence in larger quantities?"
If I remember right, I saw an option in the 2.4.x kernel that had the option for large memory support. The choices were either 4GB or 64GB. But come to think of it, I'm not sure if that's for RAM or memory addressing.
How is it the Slashdot editors' (or the question poster's) problem that you chose to bitch and moan about how easy it is to find an answer (not necessarily the right one) to the question? Seems to me you spent the time digging by choice; nobody put a gun to your head, did they?
The "quality" of Ask Slashdot has been on a steady decline lately, not because of a lack of quality of questions, but because of smartasses like yourself who'd rather complain than help.
There's exactly three kinds of Ask Slashdot replies I've seen in the last few months: 1) "Google it, you idiot!", 2) "Why would you ever want that, you idiot?", 3) The occasional, actually helpful, answer.
This is as idiotic as "concerned parents lobbying to get rid of violent TV" -- if you don't want to see questions that annoy you, take the Ask Slashdot section out of your preferences and quit reading the damned things!
I know, maybe you should post your smartass question as an Ask Slashdot question! That'd be fun. Harder to just claim "google it!" for that, isn't it?
And yes, I noticed you posted a link to some server, and included only its memory capacity. Does it match the other requirements in the Ask Slashdot question? You did actually read the whole question, right?
Read my stuff.