On 3/20/07, Rick Brown <rick.brown.3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1) i386 - I understand this is the most commonly used intel IA32 architecture to which all the pentiums, xeons, and 386, 486 etc belong. It also covers the AMD (and other manufacturers') x86 based processors. Is this right?
yes
2) ia64 - This is for the intel 64 bit processors (Itanium). Additionaly, it also covers AMD and other manufacturers' 64 bit processors. Correct?
no ... this is the itanium only, this is not the AMD64/EM64T stuff
3) x86_64 - What is this?
amd64/em64t
Secondly, when we talk of 32/64 bit processor, we are talking about the data bus width, right? The same holds when we talk about Operating systems, right? So the size of address bus does not matter?
it usually refers to the native size of the cpu ... 64bit processors work normally on registers that are 64bits in size while 32bit processors work normally on registers that are 32bits in size -mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
