On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> wrote: > If "64-bit PC" is too vague, the alternative designator for the amd64 arch > is the vendor neutral "x86-64". The vendor-neutral designator for all of > i386, i486, i586, i686, amd64 and x32 is "x86" (i.e. it is for both 32-bit > and 64-bit). i286, i186 and 8086 are too old to bother with :-)
Why should we be vendor-neutral? AMD invented the AMD64 instruction set. Intel invented the 386 instruction set and we call it i386. Why be vendor-neutral for things that AMD invents when we aren't vendor- neutral for things that Intel invents? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
