Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 21:57 -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
Frustrating. Why didn't the Debian developers stick with the more
correct x86_64 nomenclature that the Linux kernel team uses?
I might be mistaken, but as far as I remember "amd64" is the name of the
architecture that AMD developed (like i386 was designed and thus named
by Intel). "x86_64" is the extentions that make the CPU compatible with
the amd64 architecture.
Hans
I run AMD Sempron CPU, but I think Debian amd64 works on Intel, too. If
this is correct, they made things a bit confusing, since name amd64
should imply gcc switch "-march=athlon64". And "-march=athlon64" implies
3DNow! instructions that Intel doesn't support.
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