From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 09:07:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21814 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:07:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA21719 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:06:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA31710 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:24:53 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id QAA02100; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:47:46 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199901201547.QAA02100@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Directory structure on current.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "paul@originative.co.uk" at "Jan 20, 99 10:53:06 am" To: paul@originative.co.uk Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:47:46 +0100 (CET) Cc: peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As paul@originative.co.uk wrote... > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Jeremy [mailto:peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 6:21 AM > > To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Directory structure on current.freebsd.org > > > > > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > >In releases/snapshots they're called "axp" and "x86", while in > > >ports they're called "alpha" and "i386". > > > > I agree that having two different names is confusing. > > > > DEC (or Compaq) literature seems to use both Alpha and AXP - I'm not > > sure that either is an especially better choice. Officially it is Alpha AXP. Alpha was too generic to be trademarked. > > I personally find "i386" a pain because it is used to specify both an > > architecture (IA-32) and a particular implementation (80386) of that > > architecture. In some cases it may not be clear which is meant. > > I think the architecture names are more appropriate than any cpu related > name. For the alpha, while we might all use alpha in everyday speech axp > is more specific when it comes to releases since the alpha release of Hear hear ;-) > the alpha code can get a tad confusing, I think that's why it was > changed in the first place. It'd be nice if i386 could become IA32 but > it probably won't happen. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message