On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:03:53PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:52:18AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > > Currently, Gentoo uses the ``x86`` keyword to indicate the architecture > > used by IBM PCs with Intel 80x86 CPUs (and, of course, the clones). The > > ``x86-64`` architecture, which is ``x86`` with a small number of > > extensions for 64-bit numeric and 40 bit address support, is denoted by > > the confusing ``amd64`` keyword. > > > > Blame AMD, they're the ones who called the technology AMD64 :)
Yes, but IIRC they started with name x86-64. For exmaple this page from 17 August 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20000817014037/http://www.x86-64.org/ Peter Cech -- [email protected] mailing list
