From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 25 00:25:14 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 E837B16A41F for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:25:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from ritamari.vonostingroup.com (ritamari.vonostingroup.com [216.144.193.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6F443D7E for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:24:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from pcp02452302pcs.waldlk01.mi.comcast.net ([68.60.60.7] helo=[192.168.0.6]) by ritamari.vonostingroup.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1EfROS-0003lb-Js; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:24:48 -0500 Message-ID: <43864BA3.3040102@vonostingroup.com> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:24:19 -0500 From: "Frank J. Laszlo" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051120) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christer Hermansson References: <43850140.4000005@chdevelopment.se> <4386437F.7090607@chdevelopment.se> In-Reply-To: <4386437F.7090607@chdevelopment.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ritamari.vonostingroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - vonostingroup.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org 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: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:25:15 -0000 Christer Hermansson wrote: > 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 > I totally agree with you, x86 is a much more recognized representation. I'd just hate to be the one having to do all the code modifications to "Make it Work(tm)" find /usr/src /usr/ports -type f | xargs sed -i '.bak' "s/i386/x86/g" Only in a perfect "world" right? :) Regards, Frank