From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,222ed89632aabb93 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.219.170 with SMTP id pp10mr24322439pbc.1.1341913885954; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni11278pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Free AMD Core Math Library (BLAS/LAPACK) + Ada Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:51:23 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <41b74e89-f112-4791-883d-236080652dbf@googlegroups.com> <2565f27a-48d1-4000-978d-c3946154ea32@googlegroups.com> <212027fd-e3a3-45cc-b594-df6a4ae96138@googlegroups.com> <0c159836-b4b9-4861-85cd-e3e61e94f8bc@googlegroups.com> <99901f55-e61a-4808-a442-1a62e625cd2e@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 3VOmTkrtV3h0ncGAx1mHHw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-07-10T04:51:23-05:00 List-Id: On 7/10/2012 4:35 AM, Brian Drummond wrote: . >> >> I have AMD 32-bit and here I see that VBox does not exist for this type >> of architecture: >> >> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads >> >> Only AMD64 is offered for AMD. > > That's because AMD 32-bit is fully compatible with the "x86" download (or > should be!) > > - Brian also many get confused by AMD64 thinking it is only for AMD. AMD64 just says 64 bit. But it is for intel and for AMD. It is called AMD64 (and not say INTEL64) because AMD was the first to make those 64 bit extensions instructions, then INTEL followed later. Hence the name is stuck at AMD64. x86 is 32 bit, and should work on intel 32 and amd 32 bits PC's. I am on 64 bit intel PC, but I use VBox 32 bit guest OS's. i.e I downloaded Linux 32 bit (not 64 bit). too long to explain but better this way. I recommend Linux mint LXDE as it is light weight and runs faster on VBox. I tried them all (may be 30 linux distro's :) and found LXDE is best for VBox as it consumes least resources. I really just need bash shell and all the programming utilities/compilers, etc... do not need all that extra fancy GUI that comes with GNOME3 and such. I found GNOME3 too slow to run in VBox. --Nasser