The compiler needs at least one of the following processors:
     
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  1. 
 - An Intel 80386 or higher processor. A coprocessor is not required, although it will
                                                                            
                                                                            
     slow down your program’s performance if you do floating point calculations without a
     coprocessor, since emulation will be used.
     
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  2. 
 - An AMD64 or EMT64 processor.
     
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  3. 
 - A PowerPC processor. (32 or 64 bit)
     
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  4. 
 - A SPARC processor
     
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  5. 
 - An ARM processor (32 or 64 bit).
     
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  6. 
 - Older FPC versions exist for the motorola 68000 processor, but these are no longer
     maintained.
 
Memory and disk requirements:
The memory and disk requirements vary from platform to platform. One should count in the order
of 100 megabytes for a basic installation; 2 Gigabytes should be counted if you want to recompile
the compiler and all basic packages.