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Subject: Re: 64-bit?
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Ryan Coleman wrote:
> This machine is running a D2C E4600 which (as I understand) is a 64-bit 
> cpu, but I'm running fBSD 6.3 which is *not* 64-bit? Might this have 

All AMD & Intel "x86" processors made in the last several years have the 
traditional x86 32 bit instruction set, as well as AMD's 64 bit set.

See:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

   -R