On Tue, 22 May 2001, V.Suresh wrote:
> What do we mean by a 32 bit OS or 64 bit OS?
The address space available to the OS.
32bit OSes use 32 bit addresses
64bit OSes use 64 bit addresses
> Is Linux 32 or 64 bit? What about Windows?
Depends on the CPU, The 386/486/P1/P2/P3/P4 CPUs are 32 bit and so Linux
is 32bit.
The Itanium is 64 but and ia64 Linux is 64 bit.
Windows (W9x,NT,2000,XP) are 32 bit. Whistler has both a 32bit version and
a 64bit version.
-Naren
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