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32-bit operating systems do have a hard limit of 4GB of RAM but that's per process. See PAE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

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And the 32-bit address space generally has some space reserved for the kernel, so more like 3GB per process, depending on the OS.

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