it's Historical I'm old, I was there I'm old, so I don't remember the details
On 3/14/21 3:49 AM, Susmita/Rajib wrote:
While Intel PCs are also 64bit processors? For instance, my current laptop is Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15ISK 80XH01FKIN 15.6-inch Laptop (6th Gen Core i3-6006U/4GB/2TB/Integrated Graphics), a 64bit processor. It can't be that intellectuals, technocrats and cognitive elites involved in the development of this complete OS+packages could be misplaced in their perceptions. This is impossible. So why such naming?
AMD was the first on the market with 64bit hardware. (I was an early adopter) Packages and Kernels were named "amd64" to indicate they were compatible vs the 32bit versions
*it's not a good thing to change names... a gazillion things would be affected.
Could I be educated in this regard please?
