On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:36:07PM -0400, Donald Allen wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jonathan Gray  wrote:

> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:29:45PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:

> >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM,   wrote:

> >> > Why are you using the AMD installation with an Intel cpu?

> >>

> >> Probably because it's a better architecture.

> >

> > If such decisions could be made without taking into account

> > reality, surely sparc64 would be a better choice.

> >

> > But the S10 has an N270 Atom processor, so it is i386 only.

>

> That's not correct. See my previous message. You are confusing my

> machine (a Thinkstation S10 workstation) with a Lenovo netbook of the

> same name.

Either way, I believe the Atom supports amd64 architecture as well as

i386.
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Graham Allan

School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota

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