Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 20:18:27 +0100 From: "George Barnett" <george@alink.co.za> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@online.fr>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Peeve: why "i386"? Message-ID: <007501c32c60$682fee00$0100000a@D9NLZD0J> References: <20030605165217.A388@online.fr>
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From: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@online.fr> > Why do all the BSDs continue to refer to the 32 bit Intel architecture > as i386 even when they typically won't even install on an i386 any > more? Why not call it x86, or ia32, if not in the kernel config then > at least in the release notes and documentation, as everyone else has > been doing for years? The reason it's done this way is so that once every 6 months there can be a mundane argument on various lists about some minor cosmetic name that non-geeks don't care about anyway. :-) /bad week --george
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