Post #274,001
11/26/06 11:11:49 PM
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I'd call that exotic technology
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Post #274,072
11/27/06 2:18:48 PM
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No, it is bone stock on everything since the P3 from Intel
The most support Chipset supports PAE, except most MB manufacturers didn't enable it.
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Post #274,076
11/27/06 2:30:16 PM
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And AMD? PowerPC? ARM?
>most MB manufacturers didn't enable it.
So it would be a bad idea to count on it I think.
There's a lot more reasons I'd discount this solution. For one - the problem says a 32 bit machine. It doesn't say a 32 bit Intel machine. It doesn't say a 36 bit machine - which is essentially what PAE gives you if its enabled. It says - a vanilla 32 bit machine.
I'm not saying PAE is bad. I'm not saying it isn't widely available. I'm saying it is outside of the problem definition.
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Post #274,077
11/27/06 2:33:06 PM
11/27/06 2:35:31 PM
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You said COMMON 32-bit
Power,ARM even AMD are also outside the problems definition.
Edit:
Excuse me, "garden variety 32 bit"
Garden Variety... Doesn't mean exotics like Power, ARM, MIPS, MIPS-EL, SH, s390 or even AMD.
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Edited by folkert
Nov. 27, 2006, 02:35:31 PM EST
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Post #274,078
11/27/06 2:33:49 PM
11/27/06 2:35:03 PM
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That kind of weasel won't get you a job
And I said 'garden variety'
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Post #274,079
11/27/06 2:36:54 PM
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This line of questioning wouldn't get you a candidate for
the job in the first place. You knocked out many worth while one even before you stop to consider you rant.
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Post #274,080
11/27/06 2:43:30 PM
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Whoa
The key issue was guiding you toward a reasonable doable solution, at least to get you thinking along those lines. But since you really don't have the programming background, you attempted a brute force response (which is typical for non-programmers) and then got upset when he refocused.
There is absolutely NO WAY your anticipated solution would have been workable, even with all the memory available in PAE. Didn't matter. So he pointed you back to the simple original requirements.
But rather than take the direction, you got silly.
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Post #274,081
11/27/06 2:47:43 PM
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No he got downright rude.
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Post #274,095
11/27/06 3:48:04 PM
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I'm not trying to be rude
I'm trying to help you. When I say PAE is out of bounds - accept it and try a new avenue. Don't spend time defending it as a choice.
Your interviewer has specific things he wants to see.
This is no different than asking you to reverse a string, watching you allocate space for a new one, and then me refocusing to say "OK - but the string is ginormous and there is no more memory available - now what will you do". Because I want to see the in-place solution.
You said you want to be a programmer. I'm happy to help you achieve that and coach you through what passes as interviewing these days. The really-hard-puzzle-solve-this-on-the-spot interview is very popular now.
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