Re: Windows 7 and 64bit processors

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
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> 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?
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>                Pete
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