Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:47:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > 
> > What about naming? IA-64 is taken, AMD64 is too specific, Intel's
> > "IA-32e" sounds too vague, and I find x86-64 / x86_64 difficult to type.
> > "x64" perhaps?
> 
> x86-64 it is. Maybe you can remap one of your function keys to send the 
> sequence ;)
> 
> This whole "ia32" crap has always been ridiculous - nobody has _ever_ 
> called an x86 anything but x86, and Intel is just making it worse by 
> adding random illogical letters to the end.
> 
> In contrast, x86-64 tells you _exactly_ what it's all about, and is what 
> the kernel has always called the architecture anyway.

hmm, so the current x86_64 will be changed to x86-64 or
will there be x86_64 and x86-64?

probably I missed something important, but AMD64 seems 
to be labeled x86_64 in 2.4 and 2.6


# ls linux-2.4.25/arch/
alpha/  cris/  ia64/  mips/    parisc/  ppc64/  s390x/  sh64/   sparc64/
arm/    i386/  m68k/  mips64/  ppc/     s390/   sh/     sparc/  x86_64/

# ls linux-2.6.3/arch/
alpha/  cris/   ia64/       mips/    ppc64/  sparc/    v850/
arm/    h8300/  m68k/       parisc/  s390/   sparc64/  x86_64/
arm26/  i386/   m68knommu/  ppc/     sh/     um/

TIA,
Herbert

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