[ale] 64-bit vs 32-bit?

Pat Regan thehead at patshead.com
Fri Apr 1 20:27:02 EDT 2011


On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:27:52 -0400
Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:

> It makes sense they'd do that.  With PAE being pretty common these
> days, it could account for the lack of a user-visible advantage to
> going 64-bit.

PAE also needs to be enabled to make use of the NX bit when running in
32 bit mode.

Pat


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