From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 07:02:26 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DA21065673 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:02:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@acm.org) Received: from mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9448FC12 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-116-103.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.116.103]) by mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id oAH72N0I006843 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:02:24 +1100 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAH72Mrc063022; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:02:22 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id oAH72MCS063021; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:02:22 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:02:22 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: rank1seeker@gmail.com Message-ID: <20101117070222.GA62380@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <4CA4C63F.4070503@icyb.net.ua> <20101116.022422.921.1@DEV> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101116.022422.921.1@DEV> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:02:26 -0000 --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 >recently, accidentaly figured out, that it can be used, with intel CPUs,= =20 >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. --=20 Peter Jeremy --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzjff4ACgkQ/opHv/APuIfLgQCfegS7zHQVzZBYCPbdSXr+ViPd SDkAoLYAOd9h4xOZ/9WW5YkYmppGrS+K =4Ift -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK--