Re: [gNewSense-users] Stupid question- 64 bit.

[Kevin Dean]

gNewSense loads find on my Intel Core 2 Duo with SATA HD and DVD
burner despite being the x86 arch.

Unless you have like a prototype chipset that was pre-Pentium D (I
think) your processor has instruction sets to handle 32 bit binaries.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Karl Goetz <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 21:20 +0000, Chris Andrew wrote:
>  > Hi, all.
>  >
>  > Just built a new AMD 64 bit machine.  No CDROM yet, so can't try the
>  > usual install ISO.  My stupid question, will gNS  exist happily on AMD
>  > 64?
>  >
>  > Apologies in advance, I'll put my flame retardant/Stupidity suit on :-).
>
>  architecture wise yes, it will happily run.
>  new hardware which is potentially unsupported wise... perhaps.
>  kk
>
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  >
>  > Chris.
>  >
>  --
>  Karl Goetz <address@hidden>
>
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