We went from 8-bit, to 16-bit, to 32-bit, and ended things at 64-bit. Here's why 128-bit CPUs don't exist.
  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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