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Re: Renaming this list into debian-amd64



I would tend to agree here, 

afaik the family is also known as k8, 

is it fair to say, that AMD64 is AMDs implelentation of x86-64, and IA64 is
intels implemenatation of IA64 :-), some other chip company might implement
x86-64 aswell, its all very odd,

Ian

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:45:54PM +0200, Martin Jungowski wrote:
> I'd say it whould remain x86-64 since that is more technical. AMD64
> sounds like a marketing thing to me, after all they don't call their
> Athlon XP and Duron AMD32
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 08:37, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> [2003-08-21 18:53]:
> > > I wonder if it would be worth renaming this list into ?debian-amd64? which
> > > 
> > > If nobody objects, I guess that I should assume (silent) acknowledgement and
> > > ask listmaster people to rename this list and adjust the web archive.
> > 
> > I agree with renaming it to -amd64.  Just make sure there's an alias
> > for -x86-64.
> > -- 
> > Martin Michlmayr
> > tbm@cyrius.com
> > 
> 
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