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Re: Debian AMD64 Port Ready



Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> writes:
> 
> >> not ship with AMD64 arch support since by 2007 (sarge+1) all desktop
> >> systems will be AMD64/EM64T/IA32E based. BTW Intel is expected to enable
> >> the 64bit extensions on the P4 3.2GHz+ chips by the end of August 2004.
> > Since the amd64 CPU is fine running i386 code, how could the i386 port
> > be useless?
> 
> Because one paid for the 64bit stuff and wants to use it?

So you consider it useless only because the CPU could do something
else?

Bogus argument.

Regards,

	Joey

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