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Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?
- From: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas mailhot laposte net>
- To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:26:40 +0100
Le Mer 9 décembre 2009 15:00, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit :
> Actually, x86_64 is an AMD invention (originally called AMD64)
> and is called EM64T by Intel. The only "Intel 64" I can think of
> is IA64, i.e. Itanium (called "Itanic" by some).
When Intel realised Itanium was a failure, they dumped the ia32/ia64
classification and adopted x32/x64 (which is the same thing, except x64 !=
ia64, talk about hiding past mistakes)
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Nicolas Mailhot
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