Re: Windows 7 and 64bit processors

AMD more or less invented 64-bit x86. They made it easy by making x86-64
a.k.a. x64 as a supplement to 32-bit x86 instead of an entire new
architecture. AMD (like IBM) provided a path towards the future without
sacrificing legacy 32-bit support. OTOJ, Intel's initial foray into 64-bit
land was a departure from x86 and, when the market mostly failed to follow
Intel's lead, they back-tracked and put out their own implementation of
AMD's x86-64 instruction set.

You're just fine to use the "Image64a" version.

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Pete Massiello
<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Working at a customer who recently purchased some new HP 64bit Windows 7
computers with Intel processors. We are having all sorts of problems
installing Windows7 on them. We had the latest service pack on the iSeries
for Win7. We could not get the installer to work using Setup at all. Then
we tried using the CWINSTALL and that wouldn't work either. Finally, we
found that we had to physically map a drive for the install to work. Then
the funny thing is that we can install the 64bit for AMD processors on the
intel processor, but we can't install the 64bit for intel processors on the
intel processor.



Now we have the Image64a version working, but I am not comfortable with
this
as it doesn't match the processor that is in the computer. Has anyone else
seen this?



Thanks



Pete



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