[ILUG] DSL modems and linux.

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Tom Byrne wrote:

> Were those tests on true 64bit chips eg athlon64 or Xeon, or 32bit
> chips with 64bit extensions eg sempron / p4 etc?
>
> Because I know that my SuSE installer wrongly reports the sempron
> 64bit extensions as a 64bit machine and tries to get me to shove 64bit
> linux onto it.

I'm confused, how do arrive at this 'real 64bit x86 CPU' versus 
'32bit CPU with 64bit extensions' distinction?

If there's any distinction, it'd be the AMD implementation versus 
intel..

regards,
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