On Mon, 7 Sep 2020, Richard Owlett wrote:
But what would I gain ;}
Current technologies and capabilities.
That's part of why I was asking for a "reading list" to understand the trade-offs.
There's nothing, as far as I know, that you gain by sticking with 32-bit and don't have with 64-bits. Unless: this all is predicated on your system board and CPU supporting 64-bit software. Some boards and processors don't (the Dell Latitude 2100 is an example.)
I'll put together a bootable flash drive with those as menu items to see which give the desired info and convenient presentation. That should keep me busy for a while.
Read the man pages, too.
I get involved in situations where hardware manuals aren't immediately available. Thus desire to use software to probe a "black box".
I suspect that motherboard and cpu manuals for your systems are available online. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
