Oliver Fromme <o...@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> wrote: >In releases/snapshots they're called "axp" and "x86", while in >ports they're called "alpha" and "i386".
I agree that having two different names is confusing. DEC (or Compaq) literature seems to use both Alpha and AXP - I'm not sure that either is an especially better choice. > "x86" could imply that we're >running on 286, too, and it's more in line with "sparc64"), I personally find "i386" a pain because it is used to specify both an architecture (IA-32) and a particular implementation (80386) of that architecture. In some cases it may not be clear which is meant. It's worthwhile noting that Sun use "x86" to specify their Intel port. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
