On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:55:31 +1000
"Andrew McGlashan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> A.E.Lawrence wrote:
> >> Perhaps the AMD64 really should be re-named to x86-64 instead to stop
> >> further confusion over it's current intended use.
> >
> > But then the AMD64 people would be confused :-)
> 
> Perhaps, but I would bet that the Core 2 Duo world will always be much 
> bigger.

You lost. This is on the way, but always is also today (and yesterday...) 

> 
> But your other post idea was fair:
> 
> > AMD64 [All AMD/Intel 64 bit capable CPUs except ia64]
> > x86 [All AMD/Intel 32 bit capable CPUs]
> > ia64 [Intel Itanium _only_]
> 
> But I would still go with:
> 
> x86-64 [All AMD/Intel 64 bit capable CPUs except ia64]
> x86 [All AMD/Intel 32 bit capable CPUs]

There are some 32-Bit AMD/Intel CPUs that are not supportet by Debian-i386.

Dirk.


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