Hello all,
Am 2004-06-03 11:19:10, schrieb Alex Perry:
>"i386" and similar names. For complete consistency, which was the
>asserted reason for the name change, we should use "opteron" as the
>architecture on that basis.
Do do not think so, because Athlon 64(FX) suport it too.
>I actually prefer "amd64" because that indicates who originally created
I think, "amd64" is the right architektue name like "ia64" for the
Intel which mean "Intel Architecture 64 Bit".
>the architecture. If we are going to change at all, it should be
>_immediate_ and should be to what GNU uses ... which is "x86_64".
>However, I think this is the wrong thing to do because we don't use
>underscores in the other architectures.
OK, x86_64 is acceptable too, because Athlon64(FX) and Opteron support
32 Bit too.
>>I am all for amd64.
Greetings
Michelle
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