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This type of processor can run a 32-bit OS, such as Windows NT or some versions of UNIX. You can also run a 16-bit or lesser OS, but performance is not optimal. Intel's 386DX, 486, Pentium, and Pentium II/III/4 are all 32-bit processors. So are AMD's 386, 486, Athlon, and Duron. 32-bit processors can address up to 4 GB of memory. Although this may be plenty for a typical desktop machine, higher end servers, workstations
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32-bit Chips - By KATIE HAFNERLIKE many people these days, Jason Kim and Linda Crasco rely heavilyon e-mail for their work, running a small educational research andevaluation company in Norwood, Mass. And like many people, they getplenty of spam, some 400 pieces of unwanted e-mail daily.So when their company, Systemic Research, first installed a spamfilter 18 months ago, they were impressed by the noticeable reductionin the amount of spam they received.Several months ago, Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco were at a meeting whenthey ran into a program director they knew from the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science. She greeted them coolly.Puzzled, Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco asked what they might have done tooffend her.As it turned out, she had sent Dr. Kim and Mrs. Crasco an e-mailmessage suggesting that they work together on a grant application.The application deadline had since passed, and the acquaintance wasmore than a little miffed that she had gotten no response from them.The two entrepreneurs were flabbergasted. Not only did they have noidea the e-mail had been sent, they had no idea that it had beensnuffed out as junk.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/technology/circuits/05filt.html[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This is the reason why I at least givea cursory glance at everything in the spam bucket before dumping itout. There is that occassional item in the spam bucket which shouldnot be there. (I wish it was true the other way around also, but itis not.) And for all the improvements and sophistication whichhave gone into mechanical message filtering in recent years, theEnglish language (at least) is just to complex in its actual usageto build in all the filter rules as perfectly as we would like. Nomatter what you are attempting to filter out, from occassional obscenewords which have a jillion ways to spell them incorrectly and parsethem inappropriatly in order to avoid the filter, through entiremessages or entire web sites; like the millions/billions variationson DNA, there just is no way to catch it all without catching 'toomuch' in the processs. Nothing will ever replace the human brain, anequally complex and sophisticated organ in combating (either pro orcon) the filters put up by machines, since, after all, humans werethe inventors of those machines and their filters anyway. Even myeyes, in their cursory examination of 'what is spam' misses some ofit now and then. If anything, I would rather impose on myself alittle to avoid cases such as in this message from Monty. PAT]
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