On Wednesday 16 March 2005 20:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: > You can generally run AMD64 machines in IA32 mode -- but what would be > the point? All you get then is a machine that costs more than an > equivalent IA32 box and that probably performs worse.
The core market for the AMD64 is 32-bit Windows XP desktop machines, and they are good value in that role. When I recently upgraded my PC, I noticed that a lot of retailers no-longer even have 32-bit AMD CPUs, except for low-speed Semperons. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
