Re: Compiling Debs on AMD vs. Intel and 32bit vs. 64bit
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:14:27AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 20.02:14 Greg Folkert wrote:
> > And for clarity, IA32 cover 32-bit Intel and works for AMD 32-bit
> > processors. IA64 is the Itanium series of processors, amd64 cover the
> > AMD K8/Opteron processors AND the Intel emt64* Intel processors.
>
> ... and just for completeness: x86_64 was the name the Linux kernel people
> chose for AMD64. I don't know where the term came from, exactly.
Both amd64 and x86_64 are names that AMD coined to describe the
architecture. They changed their opinion at some point, I don't know
which is the most recent name they chose.
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