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difference between windows xp x64 edition and others . 64 stands for what???

what is the difference between windiws xp 64 and 32 or 86 and same for windows xp x64 edition and the other editions ,also what are the different editions of windows 2003 server,how i know what is the edition of my Operating System?
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the difference is hardware (the processor architecture).
the definition : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64_bit
A hardware based comparison : www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1665
A software based comparison : news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-versus-Windows-or-32-bit-versus-64bit-1349.shtml

there is a lot and lot of stuff to read about this. Generally 64 bit is faster for bigger applications (applications with big memory contents and big instructions).