> How about:
>
> intel == i386
> amd64 == x86_64
> (and just forget about ia64 == itanium)
Sounds good to me. Since Intel imposed its name on the x86 processor
family, it sounds only fair that we choose AMD for the subclass of
64-bit processors :-) By the way, I wonder how Intel, the company,
feels about all this; I read somewhere that Xerox was unhappy about its
name being used as a synonym for photocopy (and it's indeed amazing how
the widespread the word has become, I even saw it in Kazakhstan. Of
course, there it's spelled ксерокс).
>
> and then:
>
> freebsd freebsd-intel
> linux-64 linux-amd64
> linux-ppc linux-ppc
> linux linux-intel (or just linux?)
> mswin mswin
> osx-intel osx-intel
> osx-ppc osx-ppc
> osx-universal osx-universal
> sun solaris-sparc (this *is* sparc, yes?)
> - solaris-intel
Looks great, but I don't know if the change can be made today without
breaking everything. And yes, the "other" processor for Solaris is
Sparc. Ultra-Sparc, to be more precise, a 64-bit family of processors.
Arthur
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