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On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, hello wrote:
hello friends, im ravi again.im running linux in my house.i want to know the difference between a 32 bit kernel and a 64 bit kernel.i know the basic difference between a 32 bit os and a 64 bit os.please help me.
AFAIK, 32bit kernel is designed to support a 32 bit microprocessor. 64bit architecture is seen thesedays in Itanium, AMD Opteron and similars. A book on microprocessors might help you in detail. Not sure though, 32bit means the processor has support for floating-point variables only upto 32bits.
rrs
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