On 2/20/06, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes. The Althon 64 fully supports i386 through some fancy on chip emulation > > that is as fast as a native 32 bit chip (I think all the 64 bit processors > > you mention do this but don't quite me on that).
AMD64 calls for a native implementation of 32-bit x86 instructions. How they implement 64-bit mode is what sets apart the AMD from the Intel implementation... > So I could do that by booting a normal i386 network-installation > bootable CD, and start with the i386 kernel, right? Yep. You might have some problems with some hardware whether in 32-bit or 64-bit mode (e.g. NForce 4 chipset). > In this case, would I be able to run OpenOffice, mplayer and flash > without difficulty from the binary packages? Yep. > Should this also work on Xeon and Opteron, and how do I choose between > the three processors? Opteron is AMD's server chip. Xeon is the Intel counterpart. Both implement AMD64 (branded as EM64T in Intel's implementation) although AMD's implementation is far superior due to many reasons you can Google online. Athlon64 and Athlon64 X2 are AMD's consumer chips that implement AMD64. The Pentium 4 Prescott and Pentium D also implement EM64T; then again AMD's implementation is again far superior. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
