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Re:Windows 95 32bit

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 31, 2004 06:55 AM

The filesystem has nothing to do with a 16-bit versus 32-bit OS. It has to do with memory addressing and, to cut to the chase, how many bits are in the CPU's pointer registers.

For an education, Google on "thunking".

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