48-bit computing: Difference between revisions

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The minimal implementation of the [[x86-64]] architecture provides 48-bit addressing encoded into 64 bits; future versions of the architecture can expand this without breaking properly written applications.

The media access control address ([[MAC address]]) of a computer uses a 48-bit address space. This can be changed to 64-bit addressing.

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