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Subject: Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:55:15 +0000
"Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Second of all in many peoples minds (including mine)
> we are used to there being subtle diffs between AMD and intel for the
> same class of processor thus would naturally think if it was lableb
> amd64 it is for Advanced Micro Devices processors only... 

Architectures don't differ subtly, if they did we would have
hundreds. That's why we have cpu-type variants within each
architecture.