64 bit linux on Intel T9600

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 03:22:54PM -0400, Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> I just came into possession of a Toshiba Tecra S10 laptop. I'd like to try
> and run a 64 bit version of Linux on it but it appears that the Intel 64
> architecture on the T9600 may make this a challenge.
> 
> Will a distro made for amd64 work? or am I stuck with running a 32 bit
> distro?

amd64 will work on any x86 64bit chip.  ia64 is NOT the same thing and
is in fact itanium.  Intel wanted x86 to end at 32bit and to take over
the world with itanium as ia64, so to some extend they marketed them
as the intel architecture 32 and 64bit (hence ia32 and ia64).  Then AMD
ruined their party by making the amd64 (x86_64) design.

Debian based systems still call it amd64 since that's what it was first,
and because the official name (x86_64) uses an illegal character as far
as debian's architecture naming convention is concerned.

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Len Sorensen
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