27 May
2006
27 May
'06
16:29
On Saturday 27 May 2006 18:21, suse@rio.vg wrote:
I had the same thought as Carl... x86_64 vs. ia64.
x86_64 (sometimes called AMD64) is AMD's 64bit extension to ix86.
ia64 is only for Intel's Itanium machines, which are obscenely expensive and quite rare. (And, as I understand it, Intel has dropped them and recently started using x86_64 for some of its' new processors, but they call it EM64T in order to save face.)
Except that nothing in the world is compatible with IA64. If you try to boot the x86_64 version on an ia64 machine, you wouldn't get as far as yast