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(Sorry for the top post, this brain dead email software in my mobile phone |
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do not even allow me to remove the quoted message) |
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I was under the assunpthat I7 was a 32bit cpu, and I was unaw |
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On 28 Oct 2010 15:03, "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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Lie Ryan posted on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:20:45 +1100 as excerpted: |
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> On 09/29/10 03:03, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: |
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>> I have some machines running gentoo and every machine... |
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Why not? |
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That statement implies that you don't either don't understand what |
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keywords are all about, or you don't understand what that specific keyword |
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means. |
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If the statement is taken in the one context, if he's running the 64-bit |
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x86 instruction set, on Gentoo, the keyword for it is amd64, regardless of |
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who (AMD, Intel, Via...) makes the chip it's running on. For one thing, |
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Gentoo's support for that instruction set originated before anyone else |
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had picked it up, and AMD called it AMD64.[1] |
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That's why this list is the gentoo/amd64 list as well, because that's what |
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Gentoo calls the arch/instruction-set, regardless of who creates the |
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hardware. |
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Unless of course you're arguing that he likely wants ~amd64 instead, |
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which /is/ something that could be argued (I run ~amd64 on my 64-bit |
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machine and ~x86 on my 32-bit-only Atom netbook...). But that's going to |
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require a /lot/ more than a simple "I doubt you would want that" in |
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reference to the stable version, to back up /that/ argument, to the point |
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I can't see anyone logically making the claim you made in that context, |
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either. |
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[1] For another, AMD originated it, and that's what they call it, so it |
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can be argued that is it's "proper" name, even if generically, x86_64 also |
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often used (as it is for the kernel, but due to the _ it's harder to |
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type), or x64 (which is confusing for a few reasons, not the least of |
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which is that 64 is less than 86, but it's the newer and arguably "better" |
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instruction set, but I do think MS uses it), or by Intel as em64t or some |
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such. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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