Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 01:04:57 EST


Aaron Lehmann writes:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:56:44AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > What about naming? IA-64 is taken, AMD64 is too specific, Intel's
> > "IA-32e" sounds too vague, and I find x86-64 / x86_64 difficult to type.
> > "x64" perhaps?
>
> I feel that AMD64 is appropriate. We've been calling all the AMD/Cyrix
> chips IA32 processors, and this is no different.

Actually I would call them x86, never IA32.
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