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Minimum Hardware Requirements: installation instructions

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Sacrifice some technical pedanticness to simplify the description of amd64 and
i386.  For the users whom are actually confused as to which system they should
use, using more plain language (such as 32-bit vs 64-bit) and referencing the
vendors directly would be more helpful.

Also, stop mentioning that both UP and SMP are supported.  OpenBSD finished that
project in 2004.
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<varlistentry>
<term>&arch.amd64;</term>
<listitem>
<para>There are two classes of processors capable of running
&arch.amd64;. The first are <acronym>AMD64</acronym>
processors, including the &amd.athlon;64 and &amd.opteron;
processors.</para>
<para>This is the most common type of processor desktop and
laptop computers will have. Other vendors may call this
architecture <acronym>x86-64</acronym>.</para>
<para>The second class of processors includes those using
the &intel;&nbsp;EM64T architecture. Examples of these
processors include all multi-core &intel;&nbsp;&xeon;
processors except Sossaman, the single-core
&intel;&nbsp;&xeon; processors Nocona, Irwindale, Potomac,
and Cranford, the &intel;&nbsp;&core;&nbsp;2 (not Core
Duo) and later processors, all &intel;&nbsp;&pentium; D
processors, the &intel;&nbsp;&pentium; 4s and Celeron Ds
using the Cedar Mill core, and some &intel;&nbsp;&pentium;
4s and Celeron Ds using the Prescott core.</para>
<para>There are two primary vendors of &arch.amd64;
processors: &intel; (which produces
<acronym>EM64T</acronym> class processors) and AMD (which
produces <acronym>AMD64</acronym>).</para>
<para>Both Uniprocessor (<acronym>UP</acronym>) and
Symmetric Multi-processor (<acronym>SMP</acronym>)
configurations are supported.</para>
<para>Examples of &arch.amd64; compatible processsors
include: &amd.athlon;64, &amd.opteron;,
multi-core &intel;&nbsp;&xeon;, and
&intel;&nbsp;&core;&nbsp;2 and later processors.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>&arch.i386;</term>
<listitem>
<para>This architecture is the 32-bit version of the
&arch.amd64; archiecture.</para>
<para>Almost all i386-compatible processors with a floating
point unit are supported. All &intel; processors 486 or
higher are supported.</para>