On 21-02-2008 19:40:43 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - x64 is IMO the worst name for the architecture (originally a MS > > marketing term later adopted by Sun, looks too similar to x86, name > > doesn't make any sense really if you compare it to x86) > > Marius said all I wanted to say on that name. > > Beside, does it really changes stuff for anybody beside Intel fanboys?
I guess amd64 is just as much a marketing term as x64 then, and whether or not fanboys, I don't care, but amd64-macos just doesn't make any sense to me, and em64t is just as bad as (if not worse than) amd64. I could even live with i64, even though that might get confused with ia64. Long story short, in the end it's just a keyword, so nothing life threathening. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
