Am Freitag, 28. September 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 02:52 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote:
> > On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > > The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to
> > > rename the IA64 port to "Itanium" and rename the AMD64 port to
> > > something like "AMDINTL64".
> > 
> > Something wrong with 'x86_64'?
> 
> FWIW I never noticed a difference between CONFIG_MK8 yes and not set
> for real-time kernels. This x86_64 vs amd64 thingy does confuse
> newbies, but after a while everybody understands why there are those
> name. i368? What is it for? I only know 80386, never heard about 80368
> ;). There are enough explanations available regarding to the names.
> Changing names only will cause more confusion.

Hmmm, the thing is named i386, huh?

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