Re: IA64 or AMD64?
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- Subject: Re: IA64 or AMD64?
- From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:49:55 +0200
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On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 13:32 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Freitag, 28. September 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> > On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 02:52 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote:
> > > On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > > > The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to
> > > > rename the IA64 port to "Itanium" and rename the AMD64 port to
> > > > something like "AMDINTL64".
> > >
> > > Something wrong with 'x86_64'?
> >
> > FWIW I never noticed a difference between CONFIG_MK8 yes and not set
> > for real-time kernels. This x86_64 vs amd64 thingy does confuse
> > newbies, but after a while everybody understands why there are those
> > name. i368? What is it for? I only know 80386, never heard about 80368
> > ;). There are enough explanations available regarding to the names.
> > Changing names only will cause more confusion.
>
> Hmmm, the thing is named i386, huh?
I often read i368 too.
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