Linked by Jeremy T. Fox on Fri 11th Jul 2003 16:55 UTC
A recent article by Tony Smith from The Register titled "Mac OS X 10.3 Panther will not be a 64-bit OS" caused a good deal of confusion with many people, including me. It is also caused a heated argument here on OSNews. The basic point of the article is that Mac OS 10.2.7 and 10.3 are not "true" 64-bit OSes, but the article does not clearly explain what a "true" 64-bit OS is. This had led to a lot of claims that the article is false or misinformed, rather than just unclear, which is certainly is.
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By default, yes, but you can change this with patches on the Net. For example, I can choose the splitting I want (well, 1, 2, 3 or 3.5GB) with Gentoo's custom kernel. However, I must admit that I never used that feature, so I don't know if it's safe or not, and I don't know if you can change the contiguous address space.