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Il giorno gio, 02/12/2010 alle 00.44 +0300, Alexey Shvetsov ha scritto: |
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> i call it ia32 since its original name of this arch however it can be |
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> better called x86 (x86_32 and x86_64) |
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It is by far not the original name of the architecture… it was retconned |
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after IA-64 was released. And it only covers x86, not x86-64/amd64 |
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(which Intel called IA32e or EM64T iirc). |
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FWIW the kernel calls it i386. |
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> PS seems many users were confused with ia64 since they associate it |
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> with core2 and nahalem |
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Both of which have nothing to do with IA64. Given that users don't seem |
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to grasp the difference between architectures, why considering merging |
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two architectures that are, simply speaking, different (in userland, |
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that is)? |
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Diego Elio Pettenò — “Flameeyes” |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
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If you found a .asc file in this mail and know not what it is, |
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it's a GnuPG digital signature: http://www.gnupg.org/ |
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