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Microsoft says Windows 11 KB5101684 makes your PC more reliable, especially on devices with low amounts of system memory: PCs with 8GB RAM or less should feel more responsive (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 19 points 2 days ago

That wasn’t a windows thing only. That was a limit of 32bit machines. They could only address up to 4gb of ram. But there was a thing called Physical Address Extension that kinda faked it being able to address more than 4gb.