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[20050510] NetBSD/amd64 soon default on all PCs?
As reported in the (german language, sorry!) Heise Newsticker, Intel is about to ship Pentium 4 CPUs which include the EM64T extension to run by default. As NetBSD supports this 64bit extension in the amd64 port, one needs to install NetBSD/amd64 instead of NetBSD/i386. So will NetBSD/i386 be (finally? :-) dead soon?

Users who want to play with NetBSD/amd64 today but don't have hardware can do so today by rolling their own build of the latest qemu version, which includes a (mostly working ;) "qemu-system-x86_64" binary. (And I should put some work into submitting my patches to the qemu people... :/)

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