Renaming amd64

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Wednesday 08 of December 2004 17:19, Andrzej Zawadzki wrote:
> Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> > AMD invented the AMD64 architecture, so leave the name for them ;-)
>
> I remember, that on LKML was discussion about that.
> Linus and others wanted change from x86_64 to AMD64 because of AMD
> invention in that architecture!
... and it didn't happen. amd64 is nicer name but right now misleading 
unfortunately (that it's optimized for amd64 processors while it's not).

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