On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:14:27AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Thursday 15 March 2007 20.02:14 Greg Folkert wrote: > > And for clarity, IA32 cover 32-bit Intel and works for AMD 32-bit > > processors. IA64 is the Itanium series of processors, amd64 cover the > > AMD K8/Opteron processors AND the Intel emt64* Intel processors. > > ... and just for completeness: x86_64 was the name the Linux kernel people > chose for AMD64. I don't know where the term came from, exactly.
Both amd64 and x86_64 are names that AMD coined to describe the architecture. They changed their opinion at some point, I don't know which is the most recent name they chose. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]