Il giorno gio, 02/12/2010 alle 00.44 +0300, Alexey Shvetsov ha scritto: > > i call it ia32 since its original name of this arch however it can be > better called x86 (x86_32 and x86_64)
It is by far not the original name of the architecture… it was retconned after IA-64 was released. And it only covers x86, not x86-64/amd64 (which Intel called IA32e or EM64T iirc). FWIW the kernel calls it i386. > PS seems many users were confused with ia64 since they associate it > with core2 and nahalem > Both of which have nothing to do with IA64. Given that users don't seem to grasp the difference between architectures, why considering merging two architectures that are, simply speaking, different (in userland, that is)? -- Diego Elio Pettenò — “Flameeyes” http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ If you found a .asc file in this mail and know not what it is, it's a GnuPG digital signature: http://www.gnupg.org/
