Hi, On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 12:25:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 22:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Russell Coker wrote: > > > > On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > If "64-bit PC" is too vague, the alternative designator for the amd64 > > > > > arch > > > > > is the vendor neutral "x86-64". The vendor-neutral designator for > > > > > all of > > > > > i386, i486, i586, i686, amd64 and x32 is "x86" (i.e. it is for both > > > > > 32-bit > > > > > and 64-bit). i286, i186 and 8086 are too old to bother with :-)
FYI: Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge. * http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch02s01.html.en > > > > Why should we be vendor-neutral? AMD invented the AMD64 instruction > > > > set. > > > > > > > > Intel invented the 386 instruction set and we call it i386. > > > > > > > > Why be vendor-neutral for things that AMD invents when we aren't vendor- > > > > neutral for things that Intel invents? > > > > > > I don't know, and I don't care either way. I am fine with amd64. > > > > > > But I object to "32-bit PC" and "64-bit PC". i686, amd64, x86-32, > > > x86-64... > > > at least those are correct. > > > > But none of them are widely understood. > > > > > 32-bit PC and 64-bit PC mean nothing, > > > > I think a lot more people know which of those they have. > > Yeah, and it can be fixed by "32-bit PC (i386/i686)" and 64-bit PC > (amd64/x86-64)". Why make things more complicated. What is the rationale to pick i686 over others now. Why change to x86-64 which is AMD origin. If slashed to listing are list of vender released names, it should be (AMD64/Intel 64). We picked one archive identifier at one point of history. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120910134440.GC5890@goofy.localdomain
