Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:16:10 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:

> Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> posted
> 20081010000500.b405d25b.genone@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on  Fri,
> 10 Oct 2008 00:05:00 +0200:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:11:01 +0200
> > Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> 	amd64-linux
> >> 	x64-openbsd
> >> 	x64-solaris
> > 
> > Is there a special reason why you're using "x64" instead of "amd64"
> > in those cases? (IMO x64 is the most stupid name for the x86_64
> > architecture)
> 
> AFAIK, that's not amd64/x86_64, but rather ia64, aka itanic aka
> itanium. At least, that's how I'd interpret them since I've seen that
> abbreviation made before, particularly since there's already amd64 in
> context.

No, x64 is the marketing name Microsoft made up for x86_64 (aka amd64,
ia32e and Intel 64), as "Windows for x86_64" doesn't sound that sexy,
and was later adopted by Sun and others. 
ia64/Itanium doesn't have any other alias names AFAIK.

Marius