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Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?



On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 09/10/2012 09:44 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >Why make things more complicated. What is the rationale to pick
> >i686 over others now. Why change to x86-64 which is AMD origin. If
> >slashed to listing are list of vender released names, it should be
> >(AMD64/Intel 64). We picked one archive identifier at one point of
> >history. Osamu
> Strictly speaking, and because nobody wrote about it, Intel calls it EM64T.

Not anymore, and yes, I checked.  That's why I wrote Intel 64.  The
marketroids strike again.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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