Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook 64 bit?

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail
<francisco.diaztrepat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all I thought some one told me that the Atom chip had the 2 architectures
> 32 and 64.
> Is this correct?
> Is it possible to download an image of the Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook edition for
> 64bit?


>From Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom

"Atom implements the x86 (IA-32) instruction set; x86-64 is so far
only activated for the desktop Diamondville and desktop and mobile
Pineview cores. The Atom N2xx and Z5xx series Atom models cannot run
x86-64 code."

Seemingly, it depends on the model.

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