On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:36:04 -0400
Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ia64 is for itanium, which was
> intel's horrid first attempt at a 64-bit successor to x86.
I wouldn't call Itanium a successor to x86, any more than SPARC was
(recall that early Sun boxes were x86). As you mentioned
Simon Stelling wrote:
> Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
>
>>> | No worries, there are people who even wanted to merge amd64 with x86.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's almost as daft as suggesting a single keyword to cover
>>> both sparc v8 and sparc v9, or ip22 and ip27.
>>>
>>>
>> Err... No, IP
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
>> | No worries, there are people who even wanted to merge amd64 with x86.
>>
>> Yeah, that's almost as daft as suggesting a single keyword to cover
>> both sparc v8 and sparc v9, or ip22 and ip27.
>>
> Err... No, IP22 and IP27 are nearly identical as far as use
Alin Nastac wrote:
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't amd64 and ia64 architectures
nearly the same? Beside 3dnow/sse instruction sets of course.
If so, shouldn't we have the same kewords ("amd64 ia64", "~amd64 ~ia64"
or none) on every package that don't use 3dnow/sse instructions?
no, th
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:17:32 +0200 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> | No worries, there are people who even wanted to merge amd64 with x86.
>
> Yeah, that's almost as daft as suggesting a single keyword to cover
> both sparc v8 and sparc v9, or ip22 and ip27.
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:17:32 +0200 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| No worries, there are people who even wanted to merge amd64 with x86.
Yeah, that's almost as daft as suggesting a single keyword to cover
both sparc v8 and sparc v9, or ip22 and ip27.
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Alin Nastac wrote:
Mike Frysinger wrote:
my guess is you're confusing EM64T and IA64 ... in that case, people with
EM64T cpu's use the amd64 KEYWORD
yeah, I confused those 2 arches :-[
No worries, there are people who even wanted to merge amd64 with x86.
Now if that's not rofl-worthy...
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> my guess is you're confusing EM64T and IA64 ... in that case, people with
> EM64T cpu's use the amd64 KEYWORD
>
yeah, I confused those 2 arches :-[
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On Saturday 21 October 2006 04:04, Alin Nastac wrote:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't amd64 and ia64 architectures
> nearly the same?
rofl not a chance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD64
my guess is you're confusing EM64T and IA64 ... in that case, pe
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 11:04:03AM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't amd64 and ia64 architectures
> nearly the same? Beside 3dnow/sse instruction sets of course.
> If so, shouldn't we have the same kewords ("amd64 ia64", "~amd64 ~ia64"
> or none) on every package
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't amd64 and ia64 architectures
nearly the same? Beside 3dnow/sse instruction sets of course.
If so, shouldn't we have the same kewords ("amd64 ia64", "~amd64 ~ia64"
or none) on every package that don't use 3dnow/sse instructions?
I only ask this because I th
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