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Re: Identifying CPU and current OS



On 28.09.2025 18:00 Michael Stone wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 10:01:05AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> >If it's an IBM compatible PC or laptop, boot into BIOS setup. Odds
> >are, if you see EFI mentioned anywhere, the CPU is 64bit, but
> >somewhere at least there will be some indicator of bus width.  
> 
> There were definitely 32 bit x86 machines with EFI so I would not
> advise using that as an indicator.

E.g. some early Apple devices with Intel processors (Intel Core Duo, no
2).

Some machines with x64 processor and x86 UEFI also existed, although
not very common.


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