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From: flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:41:09
Message-Id: m2skzmqhjo.fsf@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> writes:
2
3 > - x64 is IMO the worst name for the architecture (originally a MS
4 > marketing term later adopted by Sun, looks too similar to x86, name
5 > doesn't make any sense really if you compare it to x86)
6
7 Marius said all I wanted to say on that name.
8
9 Beside, does it really changes stuff for anybody beside Intel fanboys?
10
11 --
12 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
13 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 Wernfried Haas <amne@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>