On 04/07/07, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On 04/07/07, Andrew Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I know you may think it is a silly question, but I am unable to find the 
> >> answer.
> >> OK! We know Sun SPARC chips all run 64 bit OpenSolaris, but which AMD and 
> >> Intel cpu can run it as well:
> >>
> >>  - AMD Opteron run 64bit kernel
> >>  - Intel Xeon run 64bit kernel
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> but what about:
> >>
> >>  - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core
> >>  - AMD Athlon™ 64
> >>  - intel Pentium 4
> >>  - intel Core 2 Due
> >
> > Yes, all those should work. I have personally used the Athlon64 and
> > the Core 2 Duo.
> >
> > Any processor that uses Intel's EM64T or AMD's AMD64 instruction set
> > should work.
> >
>
> I don't believe all Pentium 4's were 64-bit... but I may be wrong.

Correct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em64t

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth
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