Basically this is a huge increase but once again like the old dos and windows
days, we are not quite ready for the huge conversion!
basically the 64 bit Windows OS, besides supporting larger amounts of memory
and running quicker comes down to how the system handles its computing
processes... As the description mentions it can handle twice the amount of
programming instructions in the processor at one CPU cycle, thus the
increase.... And since you now have double the amount of bits processing
data it can handle twice the size of memory..
32 bit windows supports 4GB
64 bit windwos supports 8GB
However, as Mark mentions support for getting all 64 bit drives is very
limited... Thus alot of folks still run the 32 bit.... Possibly the next
version of windows coming out next year will get us moving on a true 64bit
exclusive backbone without the need to worry about which version to run!
Hope that helps describe a little bit better for you!
Just FYI. Windows XP x64 is limited to 128 GB of physical memory and
16 terabytes of virtual memory. Unfortunately my system is limited to
8GB.
JD
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