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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:03:53PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:52:18AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > Currently, Gentoo uses the ``x86`` keyword to indicate the architecture |
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> > used by IBM PCs with Intel 80x86 CPUs (and, of course, the clones). The |
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> > ``x86-64`` architecture, which is ``x86`` with a small number of |
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> > extensions for 64-bit numeric and 40 bit address support, is denoted by |
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> > the confusing ``amd64`` keyword. |
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> Blame AMD, they're the ones who called the technology AMD64 :) |
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Yes, but IIRC they started with name x86-64. For exmaple this page |
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from 17 August 2000: |
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http://web.archive.org/web/20000817014037/http://www.x86-64.org/ |
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Peter Cech |
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