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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses (www.techspot.com)
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Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Towards the end of 32 bit’s life, physical address extension allowed operating systems to use more memory, often up to 40 bits worth, but still could still expose a 32 bit address space to user applications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but that would only get the total up to about 5GB, which isn’t very much more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

2^40 is a terabyte