Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:47:21 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, 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?
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.
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