Renaming amd64

Jacek Konieczny jajcus at bnet.pl
Tue Dec 7 21:35:23 CET 2004


On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:59:26PM +0100, Mariusz Mazur wrote:
> I've got a great idea! Let's rename amd64 to x86_64 in Th. Any buts? No? 
> Great, I'll do it then.

So change also i486 to x486, i586 to x586 etc. ("i" in i468 means
exactly the same what "amd" in "amd64"). That makes no sense IMHO.

AMD invented the AMD64 architecture, so leave the name for them ;-)

Greets,
	Jacek




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