Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

From: Xose Vazquez Perez
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 15:00:37 EST


Adrian Bunk wrote:

In the long term, x86_64 creates more confusion:
- SuSE says AMD64 [1]
- RedHat says AMD64 [2]
- Debian says AMD64 [3]

AMD64 is the incarnation done by AMD and
IA-32e is the incarnation done by Intel
of x86-64 architecture.

I like x86-64 as a generic name, because the same kernel
port runs on both chips and they run the same binaries.

--
x86-64 GenuineIntel

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