Anyone running their iMac with 512 MB or one 1 GB or one with 1,5 GB RAM?

Please follow these instructions as I am curious on what your iMac will respond with.
I ran the test and it came no answer, but after removing part of the arguments i finally located this string in the result:
"reg" = <00000000000000400000000000000040>
This could obviously mean that I indeed have 2 64 bits wide registers working simultaneously. Can someone out there with "unmatched pair" run the test and report about the result?
Type this string at the terminal:
ioreg -p IODeviceTree -n memory -S
and look for the row:"+-o memory <class IOService>"
If this returns either "reg" = <00000000000000000000000000000040> or "reg" = <00000000000000400000000000000000> then I am on the right track to know if the system runs in dual channel mode.
Thanks in advance.

Of course I could just remove one of my 1 GB RAM modules, but I thought it would be much simpler if someone else meeting the criteria would be kind enough to share their results with me. The procedure doesn´t harm the computer. It would be a very stupid thing to post such a thing. Of course I´ll also mark the answers as helpful or solved when I have enough replies.

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