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gnu/linux on AMD: 64-bit or 32-bit?

Subject: gnu/linux on AMD: 64-bit or 32-bit?
From: gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:53:16 -0400
In-reply-to: <20060517123059.GA6318@javalinux.net>
References: <20060504160039.AB00A183C98@olduvai.blu.org> <200605170813.40662.kirblam@comcast.net> <20060517123059.GA6318@javalinux.net>

Just one comment is that the Linux kernel has been 64-bit since about 1994 
when Linux ported it to the Alpha chip. (Jim Paradis had originally ported 
the 32-bit kernel to the Alpha). While 64-bit chips on the desktop are 
fairly recent, we have had 64-bit chips in servers for a much longer period 
of time. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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References:
- gnu/linux on AMD: 64-bit or 32-bit?
  - From: kirblam at comcast.net (John Kirby)
- gnu/linux on AMD: 64-bit or 32-bit?
  - From: nmeyers at javalinux.net (nmeyers at javalinux.net)

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