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Subject: Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64
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On Sunday 27 February 2005 18:12, Subhro wrote:

> > As I said, I'm recompiling for 686 (which I think is pentium pro), my
> > undestanding is that the AMD 64 is back-compatible to 686.
>
> Negative. AFAIK there are incompatible in both the ways.

I found this thread: 
<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2004-September/thread.html#2110>
which shows that there are people using the i386 version on the AMD64. It 
makes sense, since there aren't dedicated amd64 versions of windows 
applications. 

I must admit, I'd forgoten it has it's own FreBSD installation ISOs, so I 
guess there is no smooth upgrade path from i386 to amd64. Maybe I'll do that 
with 5.4.