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On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 23:09, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2004 06:02 pm, Mark wrote:
> > Dear Sirs:
> >
> > I compiled my FreeBSD 4.7R for an AMD XP-2000. If I upgrade to an AMD 64
> > 3200, will my OS still run? The AMD 64 is 32-bit downwards compatible.
>
> Yes.  FreeBSD 5.x also supports amd64 natively.

The next question is then can you rebuild world and ports for amd64, reboot=
=20
and run in 64bit mode?

Mark

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