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Originally Posted by Nirbo
But I do also believe that the Core2Duo line is all x86 based :O. In fact, I can't think of any Intel 64 bit chips... Itanium? Xeon?... Those are pretty old though.
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Core 2 Duo is a 64 bit chip.
http://www.intel.com/products/proces...ifications.htm
All of Intel's 64-bit linup can be viewed at
http://www.intel.com/technology/arch...+tabs_products.
So, the amd64 branch (which is the x86-64 branch of FreeBSD, only named amd because, as mentioned before, amd was the first to release the 64bit line) is for x86-64 based systems.