Difference x86 and x86_64

[Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Shraddha Kamat <sh2008ka at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used x86 - bzImage to boot my machine and 'uname -a' shows this :-
>
> Linux phx4 3.7.1 #3 SMP Sun Dec 23 16:28:20 IST 2012 x86_64 x86_64
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> where I see x86_64 arch (and not x86_64) ???
>
> What is the difference between arch/x86 and arch/x86_64 ?
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64


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Thank you
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Anuz
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