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On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:43:54PM -0400, Rich Payne wrote:
> > The Inquirer is not always right, so I am not sure if I should take that
> > as truth or just rumors.
> 
> I think they're right this time. Most of the press releases that have gone
> out mention AMD64 instead of x86-64, and the marketing info at amd.com all
> mentions AMD64 as well.

Most of the press releases I've read also mention 'Itanium' and not
'ia64'. 

blackbird:/usr/src/linux/arch$ ls amd64
ls: amd64: No such file or directory

IMHO, we should settle on a policy how to handle 32/64-bits mixed
user-space and worry about marketing later.


Michael, 0.02 ?

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