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Subject: Re: Does the AMD64 version of FreeBSD run on this?
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At 09:06 PM 8/6/2004, Matt Emmerton wrote:

>While Intel (or AMD) may make changes to the underlying silicon to make
>things better than their competitors (ie, larger caches, different pipeline
>architecture, etc), they are committed to maintain compatibility between
>AMD64 and EM64T.

This is good to know. Has anyone tested the AMD64 version of FreeBSD
on one of the Intel Xeons with the new instruction set?

--Brett