Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 10:53:45 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c Message-ID: <20040308185344.GA51736@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200403061848.33776.peter@wemm.org> References: <20040306005134.8F98016A536@hub.freebsd.org> <20040306102629.O38217@root.org> <200403061848.33776.peter@wemm.org>
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On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 06:48:33PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > BTW, it's pretty funny that all x86-64 machines will forever be > > running the amd64 kernel (including Linux). AMD must have had some > > inside information about the release cycle before changing the name. > > It's my understanding that it was Microsoft that was originally behind > the change from x86-64 to amd64. > Its interesting that their > most recent release that has 'windows for extended 64 bit systems' Now those are the folks who had some inside information....
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