Thats not completely accurate, for example the Intel Atom D525 does run 64bit code.
> There are plenty of machines that do. virtually every intel system since > the pentium pro (except the atom) has the hardware if not the bios > support for doing so, that's not germain to the question of whether it's > feasible/useful in an embedded system. In particular, in a system (like > for example a firewall) where kernel datastructures may represent the > overwhelming source of memory utilization, the PAE performance hit may > trivially overwhelm the value of any memory that can otherwise be freed > up for userspace. > > 64bitness has been the prefered approach for intel based servers since > about 2003, but the embedded lifecycle runs on it's own timeline.
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