Timothy Winchester |
10-16-2005 11:14 PM |
No clear answer but only a fleeting thought
The difference between AMD64 generic and AMD64 K8 is an interesting question to ask because of its taxonomical value. That is, the heuristics meaning assigned to either reflects s o m e o n e'. s estimation of him-, its- or her- self. ---- What comes to mind is a bit foggy and perhaps someone might remember better than me. I believe that people who had AMD 64 bit CPUs where using either x86_64. I think; however, AMD decided against adopting the newly emerging standard x86_64 and attempted to enforce it.s decision--AMD64--through marketing, etc. But, as we can see in Linux the x86_64 is a standard for indedicating a portal, an architecture, a special condition to be asserted. ---- I have been reading a lot books on Linux, mainly Fedora Core 4, and one book said to take apart UNIX.s messages and errors piece by piece so that a larger understanding is possible. So your question says to me ''AMD64 generic mains nonspecific instances in which the 64 bit architecture is implemented. On other hand, ''AMD64 K8'' makes a more specific meaning to me at least because it is stating that K8 mother-broad is being used with the AMD64 CPU. Perhaps, and a big perhaps at that, AMD generic therefore means AMD's Opteron architecture running one of AMDs 64bit CPU. I think the later Opteron chips are 64 bit ?!? ON the other hand I can use my computer as a example of AMD64 K8: My mother-broad is manufactured by Giga-Byte and, surprise, surprise, is called GA-K8NSNXP-939. I would wager several conclusions drawn from this MOBOs name: (1) GA=Giga-Byte (no brainer); K8 the layout of the motherboard; (3) NSNXP = probably referring to the 250 nVidia chipset that works the motherboard. Theres no Intel on my machine as for as I know, as I custom designed the job. Any how, the 939'' refers to the CPU port. ----- SO I havent answered your questioned like I wish I could because it bothers me to see posted messages being viewed but going unanswered for a period of time. There are so many people who reading these posts that are way more experienced than I. I leave with you a fleeting thought. . . .What would be nice is someone 'were to say I got it all wrong; here's why; and so doing answers your question. . . . That would be desireable so long as people behavied.
Tim
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