Subject: Re: Which ISO for install on Intel Core 2 Duo processor
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Trey Sizemore <trey@thesizemores.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/30/2006 12:55:00
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:43:39 +0100
Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 08:16:34AM +0100, Christopher Beck wrote:
> > Quentin Garnier wrote:
> > > 
> > >  
> > >>No, i386cd-3.1.iso
> > >>    
> > >
> > >Both will do.  It depends what is wanted in the end.
> > >
> > >  
> > Well, i though Intel-Core duo is x86 only?
> 
> Nope.  It does EM64T, like pretty much all Intel processors nowadays.
> 

Any advantage to one vs. the other?  Do any performance gains (this
will be a desktop machine) of 64-bit outweigh a lack of
hardware/software/plugin support?

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Trey
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