Migrating i386 to amd64

Ade Lovett ade at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 31 14:02:38 PST 2004


Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> BTW: Do I have any benefit of using this hardware (2GB RAM) with amd64
> in favour of i386 (besides a bigger virtual address space)?

Perhaps a more pertinent question is why y'all shelled out the extra 
cash for an amd64 chip as opposed to a 32-bit processor.

What benefits were you expecting?

-aDe


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