Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 14:06:40 -0500 From: Stari Karp <starikarp@yandex.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: processor Message-ID: <1516475200.5339.0.camel@yandex.com> In-Reply-To: <ffc684fe-3d17-8f03-0624-5f9a4c4009be@FreeBSD.org> References: <1516315417.19486.1.camel@yandex.com> <ffc684fe-3d17-8f03-0624-5f9a4c4009be@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 16:33 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 18/01/2018 22:43, Stari Karp wrote: > > Does it mean that the motherboard is AMD and CPU is Intel. But why > > uname -m shows amd64, please? > > amd64 is the FreeBSD name for what Linux calls x86_64. It's the > Intel > x86-compatible 64 bit architecture that was first produced by AMD, > which > Intel later adopted. > > Yes, your processor is from Intel, but it is using a 64-bit > instruction > set authored by AMD based on an earlier 32-bit Intel work. Your > motherboard will be from Apple[*], but it uses Intel chipsets for > most > things. There is an AMD Radeon graphics card amongst various other > components for a number of different suppliers. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > [*] It's probably a custom board specially developed for Apple by one > of > the specialist motherboard manufacturers, and re-badged by Apple. > Yes, it is Apple computer. Thank you very much.
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