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- You can run the 64-bit version on virtually any 64-bit capable x86 compatible chip, and the 32-bit version on any modern x86-compatible chip.
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Jul 21, 2015 · Since you're running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu, just pick the 64-bit version in Oracle Database 10g Instant Client for Linux AMD64 (32-bit and 64-bit), which is only ~32MB vs the ~62/~63MB of the multi-architecture version in Instant Client for Linux x86-64.
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Mar 26, 2015 · In its literature and product version names, Microsoft and Sun refer to AMD64/Intel 64 collectively as x64 in the Windows and Solaris operating systems. Linux distributions refer to it either as "x86-64", its variant "x86_64", or "amd64". BSD systems use "amd64" while macOS uses "x86_64".
Dec 4, 2022 · For example, many Linux distributions use the term x86_64 in their 64-bit versions, while others use amd64. Understanding the Error: “This kernel requires an x86_64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU”
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Sep 23, 2023 · An example of this is that the FreeBSD project refers to the 64-bit x86 architecture as amd64 while Linux and macOS refer to this as x86_64. 💡 Since AMD beat Intel at creating a 64-bit ISA, some projects like FreeBSD refer to the 64-bit variant of x86 as amd64.
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Jan 27, 2021 · AMD, Intel, Red Hat, and SUSE have defined a set of "architecture levels" for x86-64 CPUs. For example x86-64-v2 means that a CPU support not only the basic x86-64 instructions set, but also other instructions like SSE4.2, SSSE3 or POPCNT.
Jun 18, 2014 · AMD didn't so much "put their name on the instruction set" (AMD's name for their 64-bit architecture is x86-64). "AMD64" is simply the name Debian (and Ubuntu followed) used for their x86-64 distribution, because during early development only AMD manufactured compatible 64-bit CPUs. Read more.
x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) [note 1] is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first announced in 1999. It introduced two new modes of operation, 64-bit mode and compatibility mode, along with a new 4-level paging mode.