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Date:      Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:28:18 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Peeve: why "i386"?
Message-ID:  <xzpsmqnhdgt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030605165217.A388@online.fr> (Rahul Siddharthan's message of "Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:52:17 -0400")
References:  <20030605165217.A388@online.fr>

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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes:
> Why do all the BSDs continue to refer to the 32 bit Intel architecture
> as i386

Because that's what everybody else calls it.

>         even when they typically won't even install on an i386 any
> more?

They do.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org



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