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From: Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com>
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Subject: Re: Java and the Atom
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On 8/14/2013 5:54 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/14/2013 6:45 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> I noticed that all the low end notebooks in the stores run Windows 8,
>> but use an Atom processor that they try to disguise.
>>
>> Can these things run Java?
>>
>> How do they do it? Is there a native code java.exe in atom machine
>> language somewhere?
>>
>> Do you use the usual X64 Java.exe and run some sort of Intel
>> interpreter?
>
> Atom is just a family of Intel CPU's with low power
> consumption.
>
> They are x86-64 CPU's and your standard 32 and 64 bit
> Windows Java will work fine.
>
> No special Intel interpreter necessary.
>
> Arne

Is there an x64 atom out now?  All of the atoms
previously were x86 only.

Lynn