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Can an 32-bit OS run on multiple 64-bit CPU cores?

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Can an 32-bit OS run on multiple 64-bit CPU cores?
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RE: Can an 32-bit OS run on multiple 64-bit CPU cores?
March 4, 2020 at 1:58 am
(March 3, 2020 at 2:52 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:
(March 3, 2020 at 12:25 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: My question was why does 32-bit Windows 10, if run on Intel Core i5 8th Generation, appear to run only on 1 core. If the processor was somehow modified to accept only certain OS-es, what I'd reasonably expect would be that it rejects free Linux, rather than proprietary Windows 10.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...sor-groups

So Win32 can't do it.

So, if I understand you correctly, using multiple CPUs is no longer done using BIOS?
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RE: Can an 32-bit OS run on multiple 64-bit CPU cores? - by FlatAssembler - March 4, 2020 at 1:58 am

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