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Re: Athlon 64 and 32 bit code
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Axel Thimm <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:58:20 +0100
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:33:10PM +0000, Mark Nelson wrote:
> I'm about to purchase a couple of new systems, my supplier can only
> supply me with a AMD 64 (this is due to a couple of hardware
> computability issues), can I run the 32 bit version of SL4 on a AMD
> 64, I know I'll take a performance hit but I'm not that bothered
> about that.  Can anyone see any issues?

As everybody confirmed, there are no issues, AMD64 is designed in such
a way (that's why you can also use Windows on them ...).

But why would you want to do so? SL x86_64 has multilib support, so
any 32 bit application you have in mind should work with the 64 bit
version.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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