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From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
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Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
Subject: Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:

> . . . or maybe it is a 64 bit CPU that is not x86_64/amd64 compatible.
> Do IA-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the same
> Long Mode functionality?
>

No, it is a function of it's ancestry, real mode, protected mode(16 & 32),
and long mode.  Completely 64 bit native architectures like IA-64 have no
need for such tricks,

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Adam Vande More