[CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

[Always Learning]

On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 20:40 -0400, Thomas Dukes wrote:

> What determines if it's a 64 bit machine? Dual core?

Dual core = 2 CPUs effectively.
Quad core = 4 CPUs on the same piece of Silicon

64 bit = more advance instruction set which replaces all the older 32
bit instruction set CPUs.  64 bit is more modern than 32 bit and that is
the way software is going.


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Paul.
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