Ubuntu for 64-bit Intel Xeon 3 ghz

Matthew R. Dempsky mrd at alkemio.org
Sat Apr 1 04:29:58 UTC 2006


On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:06:34PM -0600, Patrick Siglin wrote:
> I would have thought that the amd64 version was written to take 
> advantage of the 64bit AMD's and not the intel.  I guess that the way 
> they work is about the same?

Yes.  Intel's EM64T instruction set is the same as AMD's AMD64 
instruction set, but Intel doesn't want to admit that AMD beat them at 
bringing 64-bit computing to the consumer market.




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