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Date:      Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:16:00 -0700
From:      Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To:        Nate Eldredge <neldredge@math.ucsd.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cpu does not support long mode
Message-ID:  <692568B0-E684-4136-9DF0-62ED40675365@netconsonance.com>
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On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> So it appears that you really do have a 32-bit machine on your  
> hands. Sorry :(

No worries.  I have a bunch of Opteron machines too ;-)  But these  
were sitting around bored and thus handy.

> This was some interesting research, by the way: I learned something  
> about CPU history, and the horrific mess that is Intel's part  
> numbering system.


omg yes.  I spent probably 2 hours doing the exact same trace you  
did.  I pulled the chips and used those numbers to get info pages from  
Intel which contained... nothing.  It was amazingly bad.

I did learn a lot though :-(

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness




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