On Wednesday 08 of December 2004 17:19, Andrzej Zawadzki wrote: > Jacek Konieczny wrote: > > AMD invented the AMD64 architecture, so leave the name for them ;-) > > I remember, that on LKML was discussion about that. > Linus and others wanted change from x86_64 to AMD64 because of AMD > invention in that architecture! ... and it didn't happen. amd64 is nicer name but right now misleading unfortunately (that it's optimized for amd64 processors while it's not).
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