Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

To: Susmita/Rajib <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems
From: Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 06:41:58 -0400
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Susmita/Rajib wrote: 
> May be, Debian should make a summary of all the information collected
> from here and post an article on its page for a pre-emptive
> clarification on the flavours that Debian is available in, and not let
> the information accumulated here go waste.


Wikipedia has quite a good article at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

which is also linked at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD64

-dsr-

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- [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems
  - From: "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com>
- [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems
  - From: "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com>
- Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems
  - From: "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com>
- [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems
  - From: "Susmita/Rajib" <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com>