64 bit linux on Intel T9600

[James Knott]

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?
>
>   

Unless it's an Itanium CPU, it will work fine.  The Intel X86-64 CPU
borrowed the AMD instruction set.

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