breakthru, maybe....

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:34:25AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 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


thanks very much, sir.  i'll check it out thrursday morning [local].
i really, REALLY have not paid attn to hardware devel in years.  it's
time!

cheers, world!
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