> 512 MB of ram on G4?

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 3:04 PM -0400 7/13/00, Josh Huber wrote:
>>  No, 768MB is the maximum on chrp (B50), the newer PowerMacs can handle
>>  only that 703M. I have no reports about oldworlds.
>
>one would think that this is a linux limitation then?  Apple's store sells
>G4s with 1.5G, so one would hope that at least macos could handle it.  For
>some reason I doubt it can, but why would they sell machines with that much
>memory?

Current Apple G4 hardware can handle 2 GB (four 512MB DIMMs).  1.5 is
a MacOS limitation (and there's a further limitation in MacOS of
approx. 1GB per process or something like that).

   Tim Seufert

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