Question

The address space of the IA-32 is __________

(a) 2^16

(b) 2^32

(c) 2^64

(d) 2^8

I got this question by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

Question is taken from Intel IA-32 Pentium Architecture-1 topic in chapter Processor Families of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

The correct answer is (b) 2^32

The best explanation: The number of addressable locations in the memory is called as address space.