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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
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+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
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+[[!meta title="Is there a 64bit version?"]]
+
+There are currently no plan for 64bit userland, but there are plans for 64bit
+kernelland + 32bit userland, which will notably permit to efficiently make use
+of more than 2GiB memory and provide 4GiB userland addressing space. Work on
+this is currently in branches in GNU Mach.