Re: Memory

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 13:11, Eicke wrote:
> Sorry!
> I was wrong. My processor is Xeon 32 bits.

All Xeons are 32 bits.  The only 64 bit Intel CPUs are Itanium(-2).

> Regards.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arnt Karlsen" <arnt@c2i.net>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Memory
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 10:54:58 -0600,
> > "Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov> wrote in message
> > <[🔎] nhx8yp5izh9.fsf@sadl12238.sandia.gov>:
> >
> > > Eicke <eick.jac@terra.com.br> writes:
> > > > Hi Gary I appreciate your response.
> > > > My machine is a Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz 64-bit.
> > > > Should be happens the errors anyway?
> > >
> > > Clear up some things for us Eicke. First, I may be behind on my Intel
> > > marketing, but aren't the Xeon line of processors just good ole
> > > Pentium 4's (32-bit) with extra cache? Is Intel marketing the Itanium
> > > (64-bit) under the Xeon name?
> > >
> > > Second, did these applications ever work under Linux on your system?
> > >
> > > If indeed Intel is selling 64-bit Xeons(TM) using Itanium processors
> > > then I'll have to pass on answering your questions as I have no
> > > experience with Linux on the Itanium processor. My no-experience guess
> > > would be that you'd need to compile the kernel with Itanium support,
> > > which I don't see as an option in my 2.4.21 kernel configuration, and
> > > install 64-bit Itanium versions of the applications you're trying to
> > > use.
> >
> > ..I thought Intel dropped their 64bit Itanic???  (I only know it
> > from the row raised by the Serious Con Operation lawsuit on IBM.)


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