From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 29 06:21:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D18A21065698 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:21:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1468FC1A for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:21:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n9T6Kwig053024; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:21:22 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20091029062121.GB69616@thought.org> References: <20091028214842.GA68070@thought.org> <20091028230237.6bc97ffd.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091028230801.GC68365@thought.org> <20091029040056.GA69298@thought.org> <877huevmwe.fsf@kobe.laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877huevmwe.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Kurt Buff , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: breakthru, maybe.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:21:31 -0000 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:34:25AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:00:57 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ > > > > Yes! but i bought the *Intel* 2-duo-core or whatever; not the AMD > > (aDvanced micro Devices) chip. Are these both bit by bit == ?? i > > mean, exactly--software-wise, the same?? > > That's ok. Kurt is right. You can use the amd64 release on Intel Core2 > Duo CPUs too. > > I believe this Wikipedia page will help a bit: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 thanks very much, sir. i'll check it out thrursday morning [local]. i really, REALLY have not paid attn to hardware devel in years. it's time! cheers, world! -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php