On 1/23/23 09:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
There is no such thing as an Intel Core* CPU that is 32bit.
Actually, the first "Core" branded CPUs ("Core Solo" and "Core Duo")
were still 32bit, back in 2006 (that was the time-window during which
AMD had already switched to 64bit CPUs and Intel still hoped it could
move people over to IA64 instead).
The Core 2 line that followed soon after (around 2006-2007) introduced
the amd64 architecture to the "Core" brand.
Stefan
My Dell Inspiron E1505 shipped in 2007 with a 32-bit Core Duo
T2250 processor. In 2016, I STFW and saw that certain 64-bit Core 2 Duo
processors sometimes worked in this laptop (depending upon motherboard
hardware revision?). I bought and installed a T7400, and it works!
David
