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Originally Posted by Mohammed  are you sure man ?
if so, then why is that we see new version of software nowadays are starting to change to 64bit, if the 32bit will access the same memory ?
thanks :). |
Well to explain the whole process would take me a while and it can get confusing for you. But in a nutshell:
The software even if its 32bits running on a 64 bit OS, it can access all your physical memory.
To give you a small sample.
App X 32 bits running on 32 bit Windows: The app can't use more than 4GBs because WINDOWS cannot see the memory.
App X 32 bits running on 64 bit Windows: The app uses all your memory because WINDOWS sees it.
Hope that helps.