On 10-10-2008 14:40:13 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> writes:
> 
> > - x64 is what the vendors (Apple, Sun) advertise themselves
> 
> Err I'm sure I haven't seen any x64 in the documentation or
> advertisement of my MacBook Pro, are you sure _Apple_ uses that totally
> bogus name?

Ehm, no.  So I must have been confused.

> Anyway, em64t might be better, but then again you're to the same point:
> an Opteron using an Intel name? I think amd64 is totally fine since it's
> the first commercial name it got by uh, those who introduced it, I
> guess, but the only thing I don't ever want to see officially is
> endorsing the x64 commercial speak.

Whatever.  Some of you seem to have some quite agressive dislikement to
it.  In the end it's just a name/tag.  I guess I could live with
anything, including c3p0.


-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level