Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:13:12 -0800 | From | Aaron Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:56:44AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > What about naming? IA-64 is taken, AMD64 is too specific, Intel's > "IA-32e" sounds too vague, and I find x86-64 / x86_64 difficult to type. > "x64" perhaps?
I feel that AMD64 is appropriate. We've been calling all the AMD/Cyrix chips IA32 processors, and this is no different. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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