public inbox for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò)
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: Keyword amd64 -> x86_64
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:40:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2skzmqhjo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080221160218.bdb1755f.genone@gentoo.org

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 428 bytes --]

Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> writes:

> - 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)

Marius said all I wanted to say on that name.

Beside, does it really changes stuff for anybody beside Intel fanboys?

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 188 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-21 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 17:59 [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 William L. Thomson Jr.
2008-02-20 18:13 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-02-20 18:23 ` Marius Mauch
2008-02-20 18:40   ` Fabian Groffen
2008-02-21 15:02     ` Marius Mauch
2008-02-21 18:40       ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò [this message]
2008-02-21 21:35         ` [gentoo-dev] " Wernfried Haas
2008-02-21 21:37         ` Josh Saddler
2008-02-21 22:26           ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2008-02-22 12:41         ` Fabian Groffen
2008-02-28 23:12     ` [gentoo-dev] " Bernd Steinhauser
2008-02-29  7:12       ` Ben de Groot
2008-02-29  7:56         ` Fabian Groffen
2008-03-02 13:35           ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-02-20 20:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christoph Mende
2008-02-21  1:42   ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-02-21  5:27     ` Andrew Cowie
2008-02-21  6:30       ` Olivier Crête
2008-02-21  8:05         ` Ioannis Aslanidis

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m2skzmqhjo.fsf@gmail.com \
    --to=flameeyes@gmail.com \
    --cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox