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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?

If you would like to ship me one, I'd gladly test it out for you.  See my
web site for my address.

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Matt Emmerton