* Chaim Keren Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070709 11:36]: > On Monday 09 July 2007 08:32:03 Amos Shapira wrote: > > To give context for my question - I've just bought a Dell desktop based on > > Intel Core 2 Duo and installed Debian Etch (amd64) on it, > > A bit off topic but why try to install amd64 on an Intel chip? Why not "Intel > IA-64"
IA-64 is a completely different processor, it's the Itanium. Intel Core 2 uo is an amd64/x86_64 processor, the standard for this processor was defined by amd and was later copied by intel. Cheers, Baruch ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
