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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses (www.techspot.com)

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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, 64 bit was widely adopted long before windows cut support. Keep in mind a 32 bit OS can only use ~4GB of ram, and most systems have been shipping with more than that for many years now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Towards the end of 32 bit’s life, physical address extension allowed operating systems to use more memory, often up to 40 bits worth, but still could still expose a 32 bit address space to user applications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but that would only get the total up to about 5GB, which isn’t very much more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

2^40 is a terabyte