breakthru, maybe....

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:00:57 -0700, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/
>
> Yes! but i bought the *Intel* 2-duo-core or whatever; not the AMD
> (aDvanced micro Devices) chip.  Are these both bit by bit == ??  i
> mean, exactly--software-wise, the same??

That's ok.  Kurt is right.  You can use the amd64 release on Intel Core2
Duo CPUs too.

I believe this Wikipedia page will help a bit:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64