On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 marc.miller@amd.com wrote:
Microsoft is calling it "x64" (see
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/may04/05-04WinHEC2004KeynotePR.asp).
This is the only resonable alternative to "amd64" I've heard suggested so
far, seen as a name. The up side is that microsoft might make it
recognized. Or they might not, and it is probably not a good idea to sit
around until they have shipped a product and see what they call it in
marketing. And as has been pointed out, several linux distributions do use
"amd64" today, "x64" would be yet another name and this architecture
already has a couple too many.
/Mattias Wadenstein