On Monday 08 August 2005 09:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > With the exception of the Itainium, current 64 bit > > processors are 32 > > bit processors with 64 bit extensions for large > > memory support. So, > > there should be no issue running 32 bit clients on > > x86-64 processors. > > > > Dan > > Not to start a flame war but that is only for intel > processors. AMD64 is truely a 64 bit processor from > the ground up.
Actually, no. The Itanium was a 64 bit processor from the ground up, hence the reason for no backward compatibility. AMD took the x86 instruction set, extended it, and came up with the x86-64 instruction set, which had 32bit backward compatibility. Intel finally capitulated, and produced a 64 bit chip that had (almost) the exact same 64 bit extensions as the AMD chip. j----- k----- -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
