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Old 01-26-2011
Any Beos versions work on AMD64-type PCs?
Preparing to get my first home PC via custom-build shop. It will have three hard disk drives...one to be used only for trial of various OSs. Was hoping to test out Haiku, but according to 'supported architectures' table at Wikipedia ("Comparison of open source operating systems"), it only works on x86/i386.IA-32, and x86SMP. I'm having AMD64 built...either AthlonII (x2,x3, or x4) or PhenomII (x2,x3, or x4), so seems Haiku is dead-end for me, but still hoping for BeOS. Will any other BeOS (BeOS R5, OpenBeOS, BlueOS, etc.) run on x86-64 PC?
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Old 01-26-2011
BeOS was discontinued before the amd64 architecture was even invented, and its modern descendant(OpenBeOS/Haiku) will remain remain binary-compatible with it. So yes, a bit of a dead end.

It's possible to run a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit computer, of course. x86smp support suggests it'll even use multiple cores while doing so.
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Old 02-10-2011
Thanks for your reply...
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Originally Posted by Corona688
BeOS was discontinued before the amd64 architecture was even invented, and its modern descendant(OpenBeOS/Haiku) will remain remain binary-compatible with it. So yes, a bit of a dead end.

It's possible to run a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit computer, of course. x86smp support suggests it'll even use multiple cores while doing so.
You know I had thought that AMD64-type CPUs would run both 32 & 64-bit software, but everything I read on the Haiku and Wikipedia sites had me thinking that Haiku/BeOS was somehow so different that AMD64 couldn't handle it....seems I don't understand what it means when x86-64 is listed as 'not supported' by an OS, as I thought that means you have to forget about AMD64, and go x86.
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Old 02-11-2011
Hi.

Observations on 32-bit and 64-bit:

I have run native 32-bit OSs on a (Dell) IBM Xeon server ("EM64T"), and on a (custom) AMD Athlon-64 workstation. However, both boxes are now running 64-bit Debian.

The Xeon box is also a server for virtual machines, running VMWare Server 2. If you have the appropriate hardware-assisted features for virtual, you can use 32-bit and 64-bit OSs as virtual machines.

However, the Xeon that I use is old, so I can run only 32-bit virtual machines. I did try installing BeOS, but I didn't get very far. I seem to recall that I needed to have a real or virtual floppy to start the process. I see I have "haiku-r1alpha2.iso" in my inventory, but apparently I have not yet done anything with it.

Additionally, I have compiled c++ and Fortran in 32-bit mode on the AMD, and, with the appropriate libraries, these codes run correctly as well.

The article at x86-64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia might be worth reading ... cheers, drl
 
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