I was refreshing myself on memory information and I am confused on the size of a Word. From my understanding, a Word is not a universally defined size, but is a size defined by the specific system (in terms of number of bytes).
According to wikipedia:
Hence, a processor with 32-bit memory addresses can directly access 4 GiB of byte-addressable memory.
Does that mean that a 32-bit processor can address 4,294,967,295 Words? 32-bit windows is limited to 4GB of RAM, but reading over the meaning of a word had me wondering. Does each Word in windows equate to 1 byte? Could the size of a word just be a larger number of bytes and a 32-bit processor be able to address 8GB, 10GB, 12GB or even more memory?