> Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> >> I was looking at the Slackware website and saw that x86, Alpha, and
> >> SPARC
> >> were the only CPU platforms under which it ran.  I was wondering
> whether
> >> newer 64-bit systems, such as the AMD64 and Itanium would be
> compatible,
> >> since its supposably still x86.  Can Slackware run on x86/64-bit
> >> systems?
> >
> >
> > It should have no problems running on the AMD64 processors, but
> > Itanium uses its own 64-bit instruction set and while I believe it
> > offers some support for x86, it does so with software emulation that
> > is not too good.  RH has a version compiled and optimized for
Itanium
> > as should Gentoo or Debian.


The Itanium processor is a true 64-bit processor, whereas the AMD64 (if
you are referring to Opteron) is just a 64-bit extension set to the IA32
architecture. 

Alex

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