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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:48:36 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Clay Daniels <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ihor Antonov <ihor@antonovs.family>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: uname -m for an Intel machine running FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20200128154836.31b85f93.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 02:01:15 -0600, Clay Daniels wrote:
> Thanks Chris, Ihor, & Valeri. I would not have guessed it would the amd64
> on an Intel. I was expecting something like "i386", but had no way to check
> it as both my machines have AMD processors.

It's actually just a naming convention:

i386 = all Intel, AMD, Cyrix etc. processors of the 32-bit family

amd64 = all Intel and AMD processors of the 64-bit family

This refers to the _x86_ line of processors.



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Polytropon
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