* On 2020 16 Apr 13:20 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Besides there is i386 which intel retroactively called IA32, and then to > confuse everyone decided IA64 was itanium, not the 64bit version of x86. > Lots of people tried to install ia64 debian on 64 bit x86 machines > over the years. Debian calls it amd64 while gcc calls it x86_64 and > intel calls it em64t or maybe now they changed it to "intel 64", not > sure actually.
It does seem strange to install the 'amd64' distro on my Intel Core boxes. As I was aware of the history behind the name it made sense. x86_64 is a bit more difficult to type but seems less ambiguous. Oh well. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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