On 11/28/2009 10:39 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > Sir Gallantmon wrote: > >> Why not label it "x86_32" instead of i386? That is far less confusing >> and illustrates that it is 32-bit on the x86 architecture, since x86_64 >> says it is 64-bit on x86 architecture. > > Because x86_32 is not an architecture name. You are just creating it from > x86_64. > > 32 bit is i386 or IA32. > 64 bit is x86_64 or AMD64 > > (BTW, I would have preferred AMD64 to be more used for 64 bit, as AMD > should be given credit for the creation of the architecture, in contrast > to Intel which gave us the disaster called IA64). > AMD64 is a subset of x86_64, not an equivalent. The equivalent to AMD64 from the Intel side is EM64T. There's certainly a few minor niggling differences between the two architecture-wise, but we don't bias toward either and thus shouldn't name either. --CJD -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
