On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > > Am 21.09.2012 um 06:43 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > > >On 9/20/2012 8:43 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > > >>Everybody has to start somewhere <snip> > > > >Yes, but people don't start with a quad socket DL580. > > Why not? > > AFAIR it was with the release of Squeeze that I did my first 64 bit > installation after using Debian >10 years. > > I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used > google and then I grepped /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'. >
Isn't this just a question of whether you have a Pentium/Intel 64bit processor, or an AMD64? I have AMD64, and Lenny was my first OS on said architecture. I <3 my AMD64 machine. (still have a couple of Pentium 32bit machines around, an old Dell d420 and an old Celeron machine serving as a server in my office). ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! 3F330C6E
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