On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 01:25:58PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > Facundo Aguirre wrote: > > > >From http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/: > > > The port consists of a kernel for all AMD 64bit CPUs with > > > AMD64 extension and all *Intel CPUs* with Intel 64 extension, > > > and a common 64bit userspace. > > > > Thank you. Also, what a terrible idea! Is that stupid and confusing name > > chosen by the Debian kernel team, or upstream? > > The name is amd64 because AMD developed it. The author gets the honor > of naming it. AMD64 was chosen by Intel for Intel cpus when Intel > decided to produce chips to AMD's specification. Of course Intel > would prefer to downplay this but it is what it is. You may be buying > an Intel Core i5 but the architecture is the AMD64 architecture.
OK, that terrible and confusing name was picked by upstream. Thanks. You know, the kernel project doesn't have to use a terrible, misleading name because AMD says so. -- Carl Fink [email protected] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
