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Subject: Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice
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On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:07:41 +0100
Frank Wissmann <frank.wissmann41@web.de> wrote:

> Achilleas Mantzios schrieb:
> 
> Hi!
> > 			
> > 			Hello,
> > 
> > i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386
> > system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on
> > amd64 (phenom II x4).
> 
> Well, you know that i386 is Intel, do you? 

No i386 is 32-bit, amd64 is 64-bit, Intel and AMD make both. All amd64
compatible processors are  i386 compatible too.