On 2011-06-29 18:59, Russel Winder wrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 08:54 -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
I think the original Core 2 Duo was 32-bit. People still use these at work, but
they're getting rather long in the tooth. Most of them have failed already
(mine did).
Core Duo was 32-bit, Core 2 Duo was 64-bit. (*)
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On Jun 28, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Walter Bright<[email protected]> wrote:
On 6/28/2011 3:22 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
OTOH, It seems to be pretty typical, standard, accepted practice in the
Apple world for older machines to get abandoned *very* quickly, so maybe
32-bit is already needless on Mac?
Are there any 32 bit x86 Mac machines? My several-years-old mac mini is 64 bits.
(*) But just because you have a 64-bit processor doesn't mean you can
run a 64-bit OS. Mac OS X selects whether to be 32-bit or 64-bit not on
the word width processor, but on the word width of the boot PROM. So my
Core Duo Mac Mini is happily 32-bit, but my Core 2 Duo MacBook has a
hell of a time since Mac OS X says 32-bit and the processor says 64-bit.
One can only assume Apple assume that anything over 3 years old is
broken and already disposed of to be replaced by a new Apple product.
Rant elided. I'll stick with Debian Testing for most of my work.
Yes exactly. Actually very few macs, what I've heard, run the kernel in
64bit.
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/Jacob Carlborg
