Re: 32/64 bit ... downloading install images

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 10/04/2014 11:12 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > > My machine has nothing to do with amd
> >
> > Well, AMD created the x86-64 architecture we are all using (Intel's
> > IA-64 never became really popular), so actually it does ;)
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd64
>
> That is interesting.  I would not have guessed at that fact.  As we
> see online many even thousands of bits that separate architecture in a
> sort of quickie non exacting way... as being amd PC PowerPC (maybe
> more)
>
> So the unwary reader is led to believe that amd means an architecture
> different from `pc'.
>
> Thanks for the clarity.

It's a geek thing, once you know the "History of Computing", so just go 
with it. :) Ric


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