Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2007, at 2:32 PM, James Carlson wrote:
>> A potential pitfall of picking such a new name is that others will
>> likely confuse it with the problem of porting software _onto_ Solaris
>> (a la /usr/ports on BSD) instead of the problem of porting Solaris
>> itself. So, the name needs to be clear. Some possible ideas:
>>
>> Architecture Porting
>> Architecture Bring-up
>> Porting OpenSolaris
>
> I don't know of anyone outside Sun that uses the term Architecture
> to refer to the CPU platform.
NetBSD: "Ports by CPU architecture"
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/#ports-by-cpu
Intel: "Intel? 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manuals"
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/index.htm
Linux: "Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or
higher), today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and
UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, IBM S/390, MIPS, HP
PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS, Renesas M32R, and Atmel
AVR32 architectures; for many of these architectures in both 32- and 64-bit
variants."
http://www.kernel.org/#whatislinux
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