Re: Do I need 64Bit if RAM is more than 4 GB?

2004-09-08 Thread Ben Kochie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 what about Alpha.. Alpha has been a 64bit since the begining: http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/jbayko/cpu5.html#Sec5Part5 - -ben "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DB

Re: Don't see much difference between i386 vs amd64

2004-09-08 Thread Ben Kochie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 where are you getting those numbers from? BogoMIPS is information from your CPU, and they don't mean anything. Which is why they are "Bogo" or Bogus. - -ben "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Mario Bertrand

Re: xeon 64....

2004-08-22 Thread Ben Kochie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 this is the right place to ask about xeon 64, it is the same instruction set as amd64. Shh! No one tell intel they are a clone chip maker! I am running i386 Debian on an opteron, and there really isn't a preformance issue, but I'm not stressing the s