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From: Peter Abrahamsen <rainhead@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] ia64 vs amd64 on Dell PowerEdge 2950
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:18:18
Message-Id: e3171c650609151416g77b6d694w40cf0f06197d2a87@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] ia64 vs amd64 on Dell PowerEdge 2950 by Dan Noe
1 Dan, Kashani,
2
3 I'm enlightened, thanks.
4
5 Cheers, Peter
6
7 On 9/15/06, Dan Noe <dpn@×××××××××.net> wrote:
8 > On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:23:21PM -0700, Peter Abrahamsen wrote:
9 > > If I stick a 2006.1 ia64 disc in my shiny new PE 2950, it doesn't even
10 > > get a boot prompt. but amd64 works just fine. Does anyone else think
11 > > this is strange?
12 >
13 > Does the Dell PowerEdge 2950 have an Itanium? Because if so I am quite
14 > surprised. Just because an architecture is 64 bit and released by Intel
15 > does not make it IA-64.
16 >
17 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64
18 >
19 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD64
20 >
21 > -D
22 >
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25 > | Dan Noe, freelance hacker
26 > | http://isomerica.net/
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