On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 07:21:56PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 
> 4.    I don't know what you mean.  There are different 64-bit
> archetectures so there's different ports.  For 32-bit you would use i386
> and for 64-bit you would use amd64.

The other 64-bit architecture that often confuses people is IA64 -- the 
64-bit Intel Architecture.  It's or the Itanium processor, which is a 
very different architectire from the traditional PC processors.

By contrast, AMD64 is prety well the same old stuff with more bits.

-- hendrik


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