Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:51:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r41175 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303161544270.69136@thunderhorn.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <201303121109.52298.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201303121349.r2CDnOKH097113@svn.freebsd.org> <201303121109.52298.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:49:24 am Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Mar 12 13:30:14 2013 > (r41174) > > +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Mar 12 13:49:24 2013 > (r41175) > > @@ -1126,7 +1127,9 @@ > > > > <answer> > > <para>&arch.amd64; is the term &os; uses for 64-bit > > - compatible x86 architectures. Most modern computers > > + compatible x86 architectures, sometimes referred to > > + as <quote>x86-64</quote> by other operating systems. > > + Most modern computers > > I would suggest tweaking the wording here to say: > > "64-bit compatible x86 architectures (also known as "x86-64" or "x64")". > > as it is shorter (and mentions the "x64" alias that Windows uses). Thanks, I've just made that change. > Also, something like this should be on this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/about.html I'd like to mention x86-64 and x64 wherever the amd64 platform is mentioned in an introductory sense, actually. Thanks, Gavin
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