Re: ia64 and i386
On 7 June 2011 14:35, Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:46:01AM CEST, wolf python london <lyh19901223@gmail.com> said:
>> On 24 May 2011 23:26, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Mihira Fernando <mihiratheace@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On 05/24/2011 08:48 PM, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi, everyone
>> >>>
>> >>> If the CPU core is i5, what package should be installed ia64 or i386?
>> >>> My old PC (Pentium-D core) is using i386 package.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks in advance.
>> >>>
>> >>> Best Regards,
>> >>> J.Hwan Kim
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> use amd64 if you want 64bit computing or i386 if you want to stick with
>> >> 32bit computing. ia64 is for the Intel Itanium range of processors.
>> >
>> > Actually I never understood why people would want to install i386 when
>> > amd64 is possible. Since from amd64 you can still run x86 code ... but
>> > not the other way around. Is there a drawback when installing an amd64
>> > kernel ?
>> some applications(or programs) doesn't have a amd64 version , this is
>> the major reason.
>> Still some people(like me) learn programming ,it's a better way to use
>> i386 , 'cause many books
>> in the world(I mean as textbook) refer to i386 , such as pointer is 4 bytes.
>
> It is a very bad reason. Let them find first hand that their book is
> making false assumption, before they do non-portable code...
>
that's the textbook vs product code . Textooks tell us the inner
feature of programming languages and
the computer system organizations, not teaching us how to write product code !
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