From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JSXDg-0004fL-PA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:41:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16A58E006D; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0770E006D for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:41:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JSXDe-0004QI-GU for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:41:38 +0100 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:41:36 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 Message-ID: <20080222124136.GI865@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1203530351.26229.17.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> <20080220192326.1d332d92.genone@gentoo.org> <20080220184023.GA1254@gentoo.org> <20080221160218.bdb1755f.genone@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2e72c272-8248-47a7-8e61-ceb07a182980 X-Archives-Hash: 3f9e5ec18268d9b70c0433e6d65162e4 On 21-02-2008 19:40:43 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2 wrote: > Marius Mauch writes: >=20 > > - x64 is IMO the worst name for the architecture (originally a MS > > marketing term later adopted by Sun, looks too similar to x86, name > > doesn't make any sense really if you compare it to x86) >=20 > Marius said all I wanted to say on that name. >=20 > Beside, does it really changes stuff for anybody beside Intel fanboys? I guess amd64 is just as much a marketing term as x64 then, and whether or not fanboys, I don't care, but amd64-macos just doesn't make any sense to me, and em64t is just as bad as (if not worse than) amd64. I could even live with i64, even though that might get confused with ia64. Long story short, in the end it's just a keyword, so nothing life threathening. --=20 Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list