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  2. 3 GB barrier - Wikipedia

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    The original PCI bus implemented 32-bit physical addresses and 32-bit-wide data transfers. PCI (and PCI Express and AGP) devices present at least some, if not all, of their host control interfaces via a set of memory-mapped I/O locations (MMIO). The address space in which these MMIO locations appear is the same address space as that used by RAM ...

  3. Physical Address Extension - Wikipedia

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    However, "client" versions of 32-bit Windows (Windows XP SP2 and later, Windows Vista, Windows 7) limit physical address space to the first 4 GB for driver compatibility [16] even though these versions do run in PAE mode if NX support is enabled. Windows 8 and later releases will only run on processors which support PAE, in addition to NX and SSE2.

  4. RAM limit - Wikipedia

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    The 1 MB total address space was a result of the 20-bit address space limit imposed on the 8088 CPU. Using the color video buffer space, some third-party utilities could add memory at the top of the 640k conventional memory area, to extend memory up to the base address used by hardware adapters. This could ultimately backfill RAM up to the MDA ...

  5. PCI hole - Wikipedia

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    As 32-bit hardware has a total of four gigabytes of addressable memory, [a] some of the real physical memory of a 32-bit machine, when enough memory is installed, needs to be sacrificed by making it hidden so the devices have room to communicate. Which part of physical memory becomes replaced with the device communication space depends upon the ...

  6. MAC address - Wikipedia

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    The structure of a 48-bit MAC address. The b0 bit distinguishes multicast and unicast addressing and the b1 bit distinguishes universal and locally administered addressing. The IEEE 802 MAC address originally comes from the Xerox Network Systems Ethernet addressing scheme. [1] This 48-bit address space contains potentially 2 48 (over 281 trillion

  7. 32-bit computing - Wikipedia

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    A 32-bit register can store 2 32 different values. The range of integer values that can be stored in 32 bits depends on the integer representation used. With the two most common representations, the range is 0 through 4,294,967,295 (2 32 − 1) for representation as an binary number, and −2,147,483,648 (−2 31) through 2,147,483,647 (2 31 − 1) for representation as two's complement.

  8. Memory address - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Data General Nova minicomputer, and the Texas Instruments TMS9900 and National Semiconductor IMP-16 microcomputers used 16 bit words, and there were many 36-bit mainframe computers (e.g., PDP-10) which used 18-bit word addressing, not byte addressing, giving an address space of 2 18 36-bit words, approximately 1 megabyte of ...

  9. Processor register - Wikipedia

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    Main accumulator extended to 16-bit (C) [34] while keeping 8-bit (A) for compatibility and main registers can now address up to 24-bit (16-bit wide data instruction/24-bit memory address). MeP: 4: 8: Media-embedded processor was a 32-bit processor developed by Toshiba with a modded 8080 instruction set. Only the A, B, C, and D registers are ...