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Hi,

On 5 Oct 2012, at 21:23, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> With Atom processors you're pretty much stuck with i386, in part =
because amd64 emulation mode still sucks a lot.

Can't agree with that in general, we've had no problems with the D525 =
running amd64 (mainly for the benefit of ZFS). It probably depends =
exactly which Atom you are looking at - they differ quite a bit.

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Bob Bishop
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