Re: FreeBSD versions

[Matthew Seaman]

Mernoz Rostangi wrote:

Hi,

I would like to know if the FreeBSD 8.0 IA64 can be used on 32bit cpu also ?

If yes, what is the difference between IA64 and x86 versions ?

:-)
./m

Nope.  You're mixing up IA64 (the Itanium) with AMD64 (All modern AMD
chips, and Intel chips like the Core 2, Xeon, I7).  amd64 is a historic
name, because AMD invented the architecture, which Intel later copied.
It's frequently called x86_64 in other OSes.



        Cheers,

        Matthew

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All x86_64 chips can also run in x86 (32 bit) mode. As far as I know, IA64 was only ever a 64 bit architecture.

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