From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 02:18:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C6737B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3718743F93 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [::1])h579HrY77809; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:17:53 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) In-Reply-To: <20030606125417.A3489@online.fr> References: <20030606125417.A3489@online.fr> X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 Emacs/21.3 X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20030322(IM144) Lines: 16 From: Makoto Matsushita To: rsidd@online.fr Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 18:17:51 +0900 Message-Id: <20030607181751T.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Peeve: why "i386"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 09:18:05 -0000 rsidd> Debian (to take a random example): rsidd> http://www.debian.org/ports/ rsidd> Intel x86 / IA-32 (``i386'')... (other messages deleted) Please note that "(Put your favorite OS except FreeBSD) calls it ia32, so should we" is bad idea, since FreeBSD is FreeBSD :-) And, the message you mention is that "i386" is very common name for PCs, they cannot simply says it's x86 and/or IA-32. We're not teacheres of computer architecture; the name should be common to us, rather than strict meanings. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita