64 bit linux on Intel T9600

[Tyler Aviss]

Maybe they could just rename any IA-64 to "Itanium" and slowly phase
out the old naming scheme.

It would probably solve a lot of confusion, unless there are other
things that can use IA-64?

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Jamon Camisso<jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> we'd all be better of pretending like itanium never happened. I'd hazard a
> guess that no more than a handful of people on this list have used one.
> Maybe that's naive and it needed to happen to spur development of the x86-64
> instruction set, I dunno.
>
> But I'm sure that all IA-64 has caused anyone is headache, heartache, a hole
> in their wallet, and no small amount of confusion when it comes to
> x86_64/amd64. The question comes up a few times a day in various distros'
> irc channels.
>
> Jamon
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