[CentOS] CentOS4_64 On Dell

Peter Farrow peter at farrows.org
Tue May 3 08:47:08 UTC 2005


"based on the same x86_64 technology that AMD introduced with their Opterons."

Not on planet earth I'm afraid....





Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

>On Tue, 3 May 2005 at 9:25am, Peter Farrow wrote
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>>Its not a 64bit CPU though, it just has large address space support.
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>>It really doesn't need a 64 bit kernel as it isn't a 64bit CPU, in 
>>effect unless your stacking it full of RAM
>> and need the large mem support it will probably run slower on a 64bit 
>>install.
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>1) Please don't top post, and please trim your posts to just the bits 
>   relevant to your response.
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>2) The Xeons in the Dell Poweredge 1850 are indeed 64bit CPUs, based on 
>   the same x86_64 technology that AMD introduced with their Opterons.
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