Re: diff between amd64 and ia64
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Saturday December 22 2007 10:11:48 Sven Hoexter wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene
> wrote:
>>> HI,
>>> I have an AMD laptop,
>>> I downoloaded ia64 iso image , I thought it is the same,
>>> I can't boot with the CD;
>>> what is the difference between them?
>> It's a different architecture.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64
>
> After 13 years (HP partnered with Intel in 1994), I'm truly
> shocked that anyone geek enough to want to self-install Linux
> doesn't know the difference between ia64/Itanic and AMD64.
>
Well, I'm not shocked because of that, I'm shocked because she/he says
that'd have an _AMD_ laptop and didn't use the amd64 port
straightforward but ia64.
Regards.
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