2 questions- projected date on 64 bit support? and... can you run a 32-bit app on a 64-bit OS ? I just a read a great article on the Opteron vs. Xeon argument at: http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/ Thanks, Dave
x86_64 is already there. DP On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 21:19 -0600, Dave Augustus wrote:> 2 questions- > > projected date on 64 bit support? > > and... > > can you run a 32-bit app on a 64-bit OS ? > > I just a read a great article on the Opteron vs. Xeon argument at: > http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/ > > > Thanks, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 21 Nov 2004 at 21:19, Dave Augustus wrote:> projected date on 64 bit support?AMD x86_64 support was provided with the CentOS 3.3 release. To my knowledge, there isn't an Itanium build. No idea if/when one is planned.> can you run a 32-bit app on a 64-bit OS ?Depends on the CPU and the OS. The AMD x86_64 CentOS (and RHEL) build will support 32-bit apps.> I just a read a great article on the Opteron vs. Xeon argument at: > http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/I thought Xeons were 32-bit...? ---- Nels Lindquist <*> Information Systems Manager Morningstar Air Express Inc.