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Re: Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit



On Thursday 15 March 2007 20.02:14 Greg Folkert wrote:
> And for clarity, IA32 cover 32-bit Intel and works for AMD 32-bit
> processors. IA64 is the Itanium series of processors, amd64 cover the
> AMD K8/Opteron processors AND the Intel emt64* Intel processors.

... and just for completeness: x86_64 was the name the Linux kernel people 
chose for AMD64.  I don't know where the term came from, exactly.

cheers
-- vbi


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