Re: em64t

[Linas Žvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com>]

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> I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is
> compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a
> amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel machine...

AMD64 == EM64T == x86-64 == x64

All the different names are because companies tried to look cool by
naming the same stuff differently. AMD64 is an official name, because
AMD did it first, EM64T is Intels' name for the same thing, x86-64
basically sums up both, and x64 is used by Microsoft.

Intel Core 2 is an AMD64 processor.

IA64 is an entirely different beast - basically Itanium processor only.

Ron Johnson wrote:

> You're mixing arches.  em64t *is* the -amd64 architecture, which,
> obviously, isn't i386 (-686).

You can install i386 operating system on AMD64 hardware, because AMD64
is an extended i386. The system will run just fine, but will not be able
to use additional features of AMD64 architecture.

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