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SubjectRe: Intel vs AMD x86-64


On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
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> 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?

x86-64 it is. Maybe you can remap one of your function keys to send the
sequence ;)

This whole "ia32" crap has always been ridiculous - nobody has _ever_
called an x86 anything but x86, and Intel is just making it worse by
adding random illogical letters to the end.

In contrast, x86-64 tells you _exactly_ what it's all about, and is what
the kernel has always called the architecture anyway.

Linus
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