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What is the max. capacity of RAM in 32-bit machine? Why it is not 16GB?

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This question is inspired from a question in stackoverflow here To what I know, for 32bit machines, we can have 2^32 combination set of instructions. so for a max capacity of a RAM in 32-bit machine, it should be able to accommodate 2^32 instructions set, which is 2^32 = 4294967296 instructions set…

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RAM is addressed by the byte. There are 2^32 addresses possible in this situation, so a maximum of 4294967296 bytes (2^32) can be addressed. That means the effective maximum on addressible memory is 4294967296 bytes, which is 4 gigabytes.

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