On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Tony Baldwin <t...@tonybaldwin.org> wrote: > > Isn't this just a question of whether you have a Pentium/Intel 64bit > processor, or an AMD64?
No. That is the point of this thread. The marketing name "Intel 64", also known as "EM64T" *is* AMD64 aka x86-64. All modern Intel Pentiums, Core series, and Xeons are x86-64. It is called AMD64 in Debian because AMD invented that extension to x86; Intel copied it when it turned out to be so successful. IA64 (Intel Architecture 64, named long before the marketing name "Intel 64" for x86-64) is the Itanium processor and is about as different from anything x86 as it is possible to be. It is a VLIW architecture, very unlike traditional CISC (x86, PDP-11, VAX, Moto 68k) or RISC (ARM, MIPS, POWER, SPARC). Itanium is a very expensive chip that is used in very expensive servers and mainframe-type computers. It is/was meant to compete with high-end modern SPARCs and IBM POWER, and to some extent IBM zSeries/System Z, and it was a replacement for HP's PA-RISC. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=-wf0HN2c=yt8z1sjpoubydyx5sqneo_qea3rw+vpm...@mail.gmail.com
