breakthru, maybe....

[Ross Cameron]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:08, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:46 -0700, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> wrote:
> > >> >     so: what is the URL to download the 8.0-PRE freebsd....?
> > >>
> > >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/
> > >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/
> > >
> > >        wait, i thought the duo core is 64bits.  still 32?
> >
> > This:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/
> >
> > is indeed 64bit.
>
>
>
>         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??
>
>        thanks.
>
>        gary
>
>        ps i knew the amd was an intel clone on the 32-bit level; not
>        sure about the 64-bit chips... .
>

Intel licensed the AMD64 instruction set and they call it Intel 64 in their
chips.
    Most free UNIX-like systems call the x86_64 releases AMD64 because thats
the correct name for the instruction set.

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