Re: [Hampshire] Which to install on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 x8…

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Which to install on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 x86_64 or ia64

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:47:35PM +0100, John Lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:52:56 +0100
> Hugo Mills <hugo@???> wrote:
>
> >    Distinctly confusing, particularly when IA32 is Intel's name for
> > the x86/i386 architecture...

> >
> >    IA32 == x86 == i386 == i486 == i586 == i686 == 32-bit PC
> >    AMD64 == x64 == x86_64 == EM64T == 64-bit PC
> >    IA64 == Itanium

> >
> >    I think that covers most of the variants in common use.

>
> K7 ?


Mmmm... that's a specific chip, rather than a generic term, which
all of the above are (to a greater or lesser extent). You could add
K6, K7 to the 32-bit line, and K8 to the 64-bit line I suppose.

Hugo.

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