[GRLUG] Freebies & Server OS question

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 15:00:28 EDT 2008


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 12:30 -0400, Rich Nagel wrote:

[snip]

> If the processors are 64-bit capable (I don't know/remember about
> Pentium IIIs), a 64-bit Linux should just see it.

Intel x86 desktop processors didn't support x86-64 until the Core
series.  Later versions of the P4 had the logic, but it was disabled.
Or so it was rumored at the time from folks like Jon Stokes on Ars
Technica.

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:wq


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