Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 07:39:51 +0700 From: "Outback Dingo" <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: kalin m <kalin@el.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 ?! Message-ID: <5635aa0d0805281739p72ba8954ta8088d0d1e56254a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080528234739.W11689@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <483DC6FA.7020100@el.net> <20080528234739.W11689@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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I think maybe what he was expecting was a FreeBSD IA64 install on the box, but they installed AMD64 instead On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Wojciech Puchar < wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is >> identifying itself as amd64 and not i686? >> > > because this intel CPU is 64-bit AMD compatible (x86-64 standard). > the rules changed and now intel make AMD-compatible CPUs > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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