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"Daniel" <DenielMail@Internet.com> wrote:
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> [...] do you know what's the Max size of RAM to a single PC?

32 bits supports 4GB and that's what they mean by win32.

> can i add 2 GB of RAM if i want? 

Yes. However, IIRC, above 2GB requires a special configuration.
I read it a long time ago and was thinking more about 'That
poor SOB with 4GB' and wishing I had his problem instead of
paying attention to the technical stuff.

> [...] do you know maybe of any external RAM device that i can
> connect to the USB

It wouldn't surprise me if something like this is out there
but with the price of chips, it's most likely way more
exspensive than memory by itself and guaranteed to be slower.

> If such thing exist how much RAM can it hold?

32bits can not support more than 4GB because when it's
addressed, 4GB + 1 rolls over to zero (0xFFFFFFFF + 1).

> is it much slower then inside RAM?

Of course.

> can i use 'new' to allocate all it's space for my arrays
> without paging to the hard-disk ?

Re-read Alan's posts to me. He did exactly that. Note that
when they tried to change window flags to prevent paging, it
resulted in lots of blue screens (OS crash) so they abandonded
that idea. As it turned out, because of their design, and the
fact that the application was given exclusive usage of the
system, paging was prevented.

Alan speculated that this was because Window's will only page
that which isn't being used and because Window's will only
look for possible paging when it's idle.

~ JD