From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 24 23:16:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C926C16A7ED for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:16:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail@chdevelopment.se) Received: from esprit.glocalnet.net (esprit.glocalnet.net [213.163.128.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EFAE4637E for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 22:49:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail@chdevelopment.se) Received: from [81.225.101.154] (81.225.101.154) by esprit.glocalnet.net (7.2.033.1) (authenticated as chdev) id 437EB70000477B3D for freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:49:24 +0100 Message-ID: <4386437F.7090607@chdevelopment.se> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:49:35 +0100 From: Christer Hermansson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051110 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org References: <43850140.4000005@chdevelopment.se> In-Reply-To: <43850140.4000005@chdevelopment.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: i386 do not support i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:16:11 -0000 Christer Hermansson wrote: > Hi. > > FreeBSD 6.0R don't support 386 processors according to the release > notes, maybe it's time to change the name of the i386 platform to the > x86 platform. > > Not very important issue for me but it feels little strange to have a > i386 platform that don't support/work on i386 processors. > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html#KERNEL > "Support for 80386 processors (the I386_CPU kernel configuration > option) has been removed. Users running this class of CPU should use > FreeBSD 5./X/ or earlier." > > > Christer Hermansson > It's a lot of names around us, not only in the computer world, that has become less suitable during the time because of progress and other things, but still is in use because of different factors. I missed to write in my first mail that I also have the feeling (maybe I'm wrong) that "x86" is more recognized / common in the media nowadays. However in this case maybe it's best to keep "i386" because a lot of things depends on this name and it would be a lot of work/problems to change it. This was just one thought I had but it seems to be a bad one. Best regards Christer Hermansson -- http://www.chdevelopment.se/ "Be honest and you can demand honesty, be loyal and you can demand loyalty, show respect and you can demand respect."