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On 04/01/13 06:39, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> writes:
>> At present, there is NO any processor which is ONLY 32-bits.
> 
> All the world is not a PC.  There are still 32-bit x86-based embedded or
> small-form-factor systems, such as the soekris net5501 and net6501,
> which are widely used in the BSD community.
> 
> DES
> 

Just for the sake of the archives, the net6501 is 64bit:

FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #3 r245043: Fri Jan  4 11:05:39 EST 2013
    root@hostname:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64-9 amd64
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU        @ 1.60GHz (1600.03-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x20661  Family = 0x6  Model = 0x26
Stepping = 1
Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x40e3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE>
  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
  TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
real memory  = 2147352576 (2047 MB)
avail memory = 2047160320 (1952 MB)
MPTable: <Soekris  net6501     >