John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>..
> Yes. Intel finally dropped their IA64 line, and went with the system
> that AMD pioneered. Then Intel called it x86_64 in order to remove
> credit from AMD for it.
>..

Ahh, I didn't know that about the "x86_64" term.

I would say it is a better name than amd64, though. Maybe I'll have to
start saying something like "x86_64 thanks to AMD".

Regards,
..jim


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