Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:02:22 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> To: rank1seeker@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding Message-ID: <20101117070222.GA62380@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20101116.022422.921.1@DEV> References: <4CA4C63F.4070503@icyb.net.ua> <20101116.022422.921.1@DEV>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2010-Nov-16 03:24:22 +0100, rank1seeker@gmail.com wrote: >I decided to go for amd64 (it's name, is so deceiving, that I've just >recently, accidentaly figured out, that it can be used, with intel CPUs, >too) :P Well, FreeBSD had support for the amd64 before Intel licensed the architecture from AMD and renamed it. By the time Intel had called it EM64T, the FreeBSD Project decided it was too late to rename its port. That said, this has caused a degree of confusion over the years. -- Peter Jeremy [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzjff4ACgkQ/opHv/APuIfLgQCfegS7zHQVzZBYCPbdSXr+ViPd SDkAoLYAOd9h4xOZ/9WW5YkYmppGrS+K =4Ift -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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