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Re: 64 bit



On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 10:06 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:
> Ok, my personal machine, the MB died.  Sooooo, should I do a 64bit board 
> as a replacement or wait?

As others have said, a 64 bit CPU will run in 32 bit mode.

The Debian AMD64 port is in pretty good shape, but a home user
should note: certain popular closed source apps are 32 bit:
- w32codecs
- RealPlayer 10 (and 8, but who cares?)
- acroread

It's possible to get them running in chroot jails.  The debian-amd64
list archives has much more on how to do that.  I'd suggest that 
you join that list, and study it's archives.

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