Installed over 4G RAM on 32-bit OS? [closed]

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Published on 2011-12-15T14:01:16Z Indexed on 2012/07/06 9:18 UTC
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32-bit Windows Server address > 4GB RAM - How?

I know that for 32-bit OS, the addressable memory space for each process is "4G" (maybe just 3G in user space...). If I have a 8G RAM, is it correct that all of the processes can still utilize (shared) these 8G memory but each of them are limited to a maximum 4G? Or the whole system only can see and utilize 4G out of 8G and thus having 8G RAM on a 32-bit OS is the same as having 4G RAM on it?

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