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From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 05:09:51PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote:
> I have a computer with this processor: Intel Xeon Dual-Core 3060 Conroe (
> 2.4GHz, 4MB, 1066MHz FSB).
> I'm running i386.  Is this right?  I had no idea about this AMD64 business.
> I'm confused as to why you run an AMD OS on an Intel CPU.

For similar reasons as why you can run an "Intel OS" (i386) on an AMD CPU.

AMD64 (aka x86-64) refers to AMD's 64-bit extension to the x86 architecture.
Most (all?) of Intel's recent x86 CPUs also implement this extension.




> 
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Irodatechnika Hajdu wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I have got a XEON (E5320) based computer. Which version to install?
> > AMD64 or
> > > I386?
> >
> > AMD64.
> >
> >



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