Mauro Darida wrote:
I cannot quite understand which machines debian "architectures" are
referring to. Of course I know that x-86 are common pcs, sparc are sun
workstations, but others are quite cryptic to me. Anyone willing to
translate into non-developer language??
Here's a list off the top of my head. Presumably others will add to and
correct it.
* alpha - Digital (DEC) workstations, usually originally running VMS,
although there was a Windows NT port to this for a while. Pretty much
legacy-only now.
* arm - Includes a lot of embedded systems like routers, some PDAs (e.g.
Sharp's Zaurus).
* ia64 - Intel's 64-bit Itanium series of workstations. Not doing too
well in the marketplace.
* m68k - Motorola 680x0 chips: Ancient Apple computers, Amigas, VME
crate controllers, embedded systems, ...
* powerpc - IBM's PowerPC chips: Modern Apple computers, some IBM
workstations (usually originally running AIX, I think?)
* s390 - IBM's mainframes: "big iron."
* mips, mipsel, hppa - These I'm not too clear on.