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   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:   
   >I would have liked to install 64-bit Debian (IIRC I initially ran   
   >32-bit Debian on the Athlon 64), but they were not ready at the time,   
   >and still busily working on their multi-arch (IIRC) plans, so   
   >eventually I decided to go with Fedora Core 1, which just implemented   
   >/lib and /lib64 and was there first.   
   >   
   >For some reason I switched to Gentoo relatively soon after   
   >(/etc/hostname from 2005-02-20, and IIRC Debian still had not finished   
   >hammering out multi-arch at that time), before finally settling in   
   >Debian-land several years later.   
      
   Reading some more, Debian 4.0 (Etch), released 8 April 2007, was the   
   first Debian with official AMD64 support.   
      
   Multiarch was introduced in Debian 7 (Wheezy), released 4 May 2013.   
      
   So Multiarch took much longer than they had originally expected, and   
   they apparently settled for the lib64 approach for Debian 4-6.   
      
   - anton   
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   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
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