jwr1@kbin.earth to Technology@lemmy.world · 5 months agoWhy we don't have 128-bit CPUswww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square123fedilinkarrow-up1291arrow-down117
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minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoAnd as I said, it could still be enabled with a boot switch. It’s not like all distros in 1999 had PAE enabled by default. You had to find a pae enabled kernel. And Linux PAE has been buggy off and on for 20 years: "It worked for a while, but the problem came back in 2022. " https://flaterco.com/kb/PAE_slowdown.html
And as I said, it could still be enabled with a boot switch.
It’s not like all distros in 1999 had PAE enabled by default. You had to find a pae enabled kernel.
And Linux PAE has been buggy off and on for 20 years:
"It worked for a while, but the problem came back in 2022. "
https://flaterco.com/kb/PAE_slowdown.html