On Thursday, 13.07.2006 at 07:27 -0700, michael bailey wrote: > Would the above advice still apply if I wanted to use my 32 bit > software and data with a Socket 754 Sempron CPU i.e. I would use a > Sempron which has AMD64 support built in, but I would not use the 64 > bit capability ? It's always worth remembering that amd64 CPUs can run x86 code completely natively and so one can always "ignore" the fact that they are amd64 CPUs and just run a normal x86 distribution: that will work fine. You'd be correct in saying that you "won't be using the 64-bit capabilities" of the CPU, but those capabilities are only useful in certain contexts and you simply may not need them! Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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