Re: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

On 5/21/2012 1:48 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> On 5/21/2012 11:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> > IMHO it's the thinking of "Well hell we have tons of
> > memory/disk/whatever. Why don't we waste it?"
>
> I assure you, the move to 64-bit executables is not the reason Chrome 
> and your 3 JVMs are running you out of RAM.
>
> Consider a 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size.
Do you know of one 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size? Just one? OK, 
how about 3 GB? No. What about 2 GB or 1 GB? Oh so it's not really 
relevant. Well have you considered the following: "Anyway I think I'm 
done with this topic"? I didn't think so.
> I've had 6-16 GB in all my desktop machines for years now.
Wonderful...ly also irrelevant.
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