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Towards the end of 32 bit’s life, physical address extension allowed operating systems to use more memory, often up to 40 bits worth, but still could still expose a 32 bit address space to user applications.
Yes, but that would only get the total up to about 5GB, which isn’t very much more.
2^40 is a terabyte