GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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64 Bit

In order to access more than 2GB of memory a 64 bit architecture is required. Options are listed in the table with an indication of what to install.

Chip	Install
AMD Athlon 64	http://www.us.debian.org/ports/amd64/

EM64T (Extended Memory 64 Technology) is Intel's name for their AMD64-compatible architecture.

IA64 is Intel's designation for their Itanium architecture (it is not AMD64).