32 bit operating system?
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Lots of stuff in the other answer, but I'd still like\nto offer a few words.\n\nCurrent mainstream processors (ie. for laptops,desktops,\nand servers) are either of the 32-bit variety (ie. Pentium)\nor 64-bit (Opteron, Power, UltraSPARC, HP-PA, Itanium, \nand Pentiums of the "EM64T" variety).  Generally speaking,\nthe 64-bit processors have the option of either running\nolder, 32-bit software (effectively pretending to be\nthe older 32-bit processors) or running newer 64-bit\nsoftware.\n\nSo, for example, if you purchase a 64-bit Opteron\nbased system, you have the choice of running a 32-bit\nversion of Windows on it or of getting an updated version\ncapable of taking advantage of 64-bit operations.\nNote that a 32-bit OS can only run 32-bit applications;\nhowever, usually a 64-bit OS can run both 32-bit and\n64-bit applications.\n\nFor most situations, it doesn't matter.  Most of the\nsoftware that most people use runs just fine in 32-bit.\nThe catch comes if your application needs a *lot* of\nmemory -- exceeding 4GB.  In that case, you'll want\na 64-bit version.  But note that to run it, you'll \nneed a 64-bit OS.  \n\nThat is the criteria most often used to decide if \nyou need to upgrade from a 32-bit to 64-bit OS.
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You can theoritically boot from 256 operating systems on a single hard drive.\nI peosonally had 4 OSes running from a single HDD.\n98,2k,XP,Red Hat Linux.\n\nGo ahead and install but remember to always install the older OS first.
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Windows latest version would be " vista"..Try linux it is more intresting to learn..
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As long as you dont plan to use it as your sole operating system.  It still has its share of bugs...  enough that they've bumped the release date up to Spring 2007.  You'd definitely want to create a partition to install/run it on.
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The P4 is a 32-bit processor, so you have a 32-bit system.
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Most flavours have "live disc" available which allow you to run and experiment without having to install (ie, booting from disc). Have a play with a few and see which suits you best. The only 'nix version I ever really liked was SUSE, but have had to stick with Windows in the end - couldn't do my job on Linux ...too many software limitations
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit
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An Operating System (OS) - Linux, Windows, Mac and any other\nGood luck with the installation
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NTOSKRNL is the "kernel" for the NT Operating System... NT OS KRNL.  You should never need to run this yourself. \n\nWin32 is short for 32-bit windows.  The 32-bit means... well, it's complicated, but the short version is that it's Windows designed to run on your computer in a mode where the basic size of the numbers it uses are 32 bits, or a number between zero and 4,294,967,296.  \n\nDon't get to caught up on that or what it really means. All versions of Windows from Windows 95 on run in 32-bit mode.  If you're getting an error saying you're not in 32-bit mode (I'm assuming this happens during startup--you shouldn't be running ntoskrnl.exe yourself... or anything else in the Win32 or Windows directories, for that matter unless you know what you're doing) then you have something seriously wrong with your install.  I'd recommend booting from the Windows CD and see if you can get it to do a repair installation.\n\nGood luck.
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Unfortunately, no. The problem is that 32 bit Windows has a subsystem called WOW (Windows on Windows) which emulates a 16 bit Windows environment. Many installation programs use a 16 bit header file which loads the install. 64 bit Windows has WOW32 which loads Win32 programs, but does not have the original (16 bit) WOW to load programs like that.\n\nI think users need to pressure Micro$oft to include WOW with 64 bit versions of Windows. The few good things about Windows has always been backwards compatibility- with 32 bit XP, you can run DOS programs dating back to the original IBM PC- so long as they behave and do not try to access the hardware directly.\n\nEDIT: A user above mentioned partitioning. That is certainly a possibility. Another is to get a program like VMWare or Virtual PC. With that, you can run a 32 bit version of Windows in a virtual PC window and since you are running a 64 bit version of windows with a cpu which supports 32 bit emulation, the performance hit should be minimal. In other words, you run a copy of Windows XP (or 98 or 2000) inside Windows XP 64 bit.
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There is no more virtual machine in windows XP and windows 2000\nI think this option was available in windows 9x products.\n\nWindows XP and 2000 are fully 32bit operating systems.
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windows XP 32 bit edition is much better than 64 bit edition... 64 bit edition is still in development!! They have released it but there are more buggs that 32 bit edition.
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64 bit applications are computer programs meant to work with a combination of Operating System and System Processor that both use 64 bits to represent integral quantities and memory positions.\nThat allows those applications to address huge ammounts of memory when needed, and compute operations on big numbers in fewer processor cycles. But it does not mean they will always be faster than 32 bit applications.
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Didn't realize there was a 32 bit version of 5.8 Thought they were all 64 bit by then.  Had to actually look this one up :) \n\nRun the command\n\nisainfo -v\n\n\nIf the system is running in 32 bit mode, you will see the following output:\n\n32-bit sparc applications\n\n\nOn a 64 bit Solaris system, you'll see:\n\n64-bit sparcv9 applications\n32-bit sparc applications
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32 bit and there's only one processor! (with dual core)
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If you have a 32 bit processor install the 32 bit.\n\nIf your processor is 64 bit then install the 64 bit version.\n\nI have an AMD 64 bit processor and I put XP Pro 64 bit on my system. Since there are not many applications that take advantage of 64 bit it really isn't doing much.\n\nMicrosoft gave me a free upgrade to XP-64 so I couldn't turn it down.