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Warpstock Europe 2024 Follow Up
Lars:
Maybe your system is old enough to foresee use of a 32-bit OS, just like mine that is about 7 years old.
The problem with (many ?) new systems is that they reserve large amounts of physical address space below the 4 GB physical boundary for PCI use (and therefore not for RAM).
I think I read somewhere that this was done for older HW that can only address below the 4GB physical boundary but needs a large memory space, for example older graphics cards with very large screen apertures and memory space to hold textures and the like.
That makes much sense if a 64-bit OS is in use but severly restricts a 32-bit OS that has to rely on that memory space to be (mostly) addressable for RAM.
The reservation of that physical address space is static to cater for a 'worst case'.
Sigurd Fastenrath:
--- Quote from: ivan on June 20, 2024, 08:53:51 am ---
Accessible to system: 3,311 MB
I don't know if the fact I am using AMD Ryzen 3 processors with built in graphics has anything to do with it (I gave up using Intel processors years ago in the days of the 486).
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Wich Generation of AMD Ryzen 3? The first one from 2017? That is exactly where the Intel Core i 7th Generation showed up as a Show Stopper (Exeptions possible).
I am using AMD Ryzen 7 from 2023 with the above result (only 1GB RAM). Not sure wich Ryzen Generations started with the same problems as Intel, but please keep in mind, the problem resides in the use of the BIOS of the manufactor, so there may be some (a few, very few) "Todays" Boards where one could be lucky.
--- Quote from: ivan on June 20, 2024, 08:53:51 am ---For a browser I use Firefox on Linux Mint and transfer anything I want to OS/2 via the network.
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That's exactly what I mean, you use Linux vie Network, not ArcaNoae for Browsing. Therefore a second installed system is necessary.
ivan:
Third generation Ryzen 3 Pro 4350G all the others are Ryzen 3 2200G units.
Martin Iturbide:
--- Quote from: Sigurd Fastenrath on June 20, 2024, 06:39:12 am --- ArcaOS can only adress between 1 and 1.5GB of RAM, ...
And for every new browser to come, it will rely on QT6, and for this, one need at least 2 to 2.5GB of RAM. ...
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--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on June 19, 2024, 09:16:26 pm ---Arca Noae should focus now on the browser with all that it involves like Qt6, the javascript engine, etc.
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Yes, it is a big etc. ;D
Neil Waldhauer:
I think most of us are using some other operating system to browse the internet at this point. But I've tried quite a few of the platforms and browsers, and it's not like they are so perfect.
Every one of them fails in some situation. Some sites must have MS Edge, some must have Chrome, others Firefox.
I'm a little worried about Arca Noae developing a browser. It's taking a long time just to develop a WiFi driver. Maybe supporting ArcaOS is enough.
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