Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:54 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> said:
> > The last
> > processor Intel released which was not x86-64 capable, so far as I can
> > figure out, was the Celeron D 310, released December 2005. The last
> > non-x86-64-capable chip AMD released was the 'Paris' Sempron family,
> > which came in July 2004. The subsequent 'Palermo' Sempron family,
> > released February 2005, had x86-64 support.
> 
> Don't just go by release date, go by end-of-sale date.  When did Intel
> and AMD _stop_ selling CPUs that did not have 64 bit support?  That's
> what really matters.

Usually fairly soon after, CPUs have pretty short shelf-lives these
days.

> I have a Thinkpad from early 2006 that is 32 bit only for example.  It
> works perfectly fine, so I am in no hurry to replace it just because it
> is only 32 bit.

see my 'oops' follow-up - I forgot to consider the first rev of the Core
architecture, which was 32-bit only and current until Jan 2007. The
follow-up 'Core 2' architecture was x86-64 capable. You probably have a
Core Duo or Core Solo CPU in that thing.

(Core 2 CPUs replaced Core CPUs in shipping models very quickly after
Core 2 was released, which kinda supports my first point of this mail).

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