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Subject: Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo?
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On 2007/02/13 11:02, Brian seems to have typed:
> the question of smp comes up along with amd64 vs i386 vs ia64.

This is documented in the hardware notes though:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-i386.html
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-amd64.html
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-ia64.html

See Section 2 in each of those documents.