How does one determine whether a distro is 32 bits or 64?

[marbux]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:06 PM, John J. Boyer
<john.boyer at abilitiessoft.com> wrote:
> Recently I installed the latest version of Cygwin. I was under the
> impression that a 64-bit version ghad been downloaded, but there have
> been some doubts. When I type uname -a one of the things it says is
> WOW64 what does this mean?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64>.

Best regards,

Paul