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 OpenBSD/amd64 runs on AMD's Athlon-64 family of processors in 64-bit mode.  OpenBSD/amd64 runs on AMD's Athlon-64 family of processors in 64-bit mode.
   It also runs on processors made by other manufacturers which have cloned
 <p>  the AMD64 extensions.  (Some Intel processors lack support for important
 It also runs on the Intel ia32e processors which contain cloned  PAE NX bit, which means those machines will run without any W^X support --
 support for the AMD64 extensions, but since Intel left out support for  it is thus safer to run those machines in i386 mode).
 the page table NXE bit (No-EXecute) there is no W^X support on the Intel  
 CPUs.  
   
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 Note that <a href="i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a> also runs on these  Note that <a href="i386.html">OpenBSD/i386</a> also runs on these
 processors, but in 32-bit mode.  processors, but in 32-bit mode.
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