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[Nick Sabalausky]

"Robert Clipsham" <robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote in message 
news:iq4ojp$1ate$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 08/05/2011 01:05, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> You won't be able to run the resulting binary of course.
>>
>> Aww, shucks ;) There go my plans of a software-based CPU upgrade!
>
> Check out QEMU, it will let you run a virtualized 64 bit operating system 
> on 32 bit hardware, same for arm and a number of other cpu architectures. 
> It's been a while since I used it, could do what you want though. I 
> believe there's an extras package for it if you're on Ubuntu which adds a 
> load of architectures if it's not available by default. Also make sure to 
> get the kvm package if your hardware supports it, it'll give a significant 
> speed boost.
>

Wow, I'm genuinely surprised anyone's even bothered to make anything that 
can emulate 64-bit on 32-bit hardware.