amd64 ?!

[Outback Dingo]

I think maybe what he was expecting was a FreeBSD IA64 install on the box,
but they installed AMD64 instead

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Wojciech Puchar <
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

>
>> so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is
>> identifying itself as amd64 and not i686?
>>
>
> because this intel CPU is 64-bit AMD compatible (x86-64 standard).
> the rules changed and now intel make AMD-compatible CPUs
>
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