Re: Renaming this list into debian-amd64
I think that's the point - x86-64 is an open standard and there are
rumors that Intel bought a license and is going to introduce an x86-64
processor too.
AMD64 would mean it's only for 64-bit AMD CPUs, that's why I'd say we
should stick with x86-64
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 12:30, Ian Norton wrote:
> 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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