The same BIOS bootloader is used on 32-bit and 64-bit x86, which is why it just says NetBSD/x86. We usually call the 64-bit variant amd64, since AMD invented it.
The core part of the BIOS bootloader has to be written in 16-bit assembler code, so it's rather irrelevant whether it's running on a 32-bit or 64-bit machine.
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2024-05-27 02:57:25
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