On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:54 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > The last > > processor Intel released which was not x86-64 capable, so far as I can > > figure out, was the Celeron D 310, released December 2005. The last > > non-x86-64-capable chip AMD released was the 'Paris' Sempron family, > > which came in July 2004. The subsequent 'Palermo' Sempron family, > > released February 2005, had x86-64 support. > > Don't just go by release date, go by end-of-sale date. When did Intel > and AMD _stop_ selling CPUs that did not have 64 bit support? That's > what really matters. Usually fairly soon after, CPUs have pretty short shelf-lives these days. > I have a Thinkpad from early 2006 that is 32 bit only for example. It > works perfectly fine, so I am in no hurry to replace it just because it > is only 32 bit. see my 'oops' follow-up - I forgot to consider the first rev of the Core architecture, which was 32-bit only and current until Jan 2007. The follow-up 'Core 2' architecture was x86-64 capable. You probably have a Core Duo or Core Solo CPU in that thing. (Core 2 CPUs replaced Core CPUs in shipping models very quickly after Core 2 was released, which kinda supports my first point of this mail). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
