Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:35:40 +0200 From: Mark Stapper <stark@mapper.nl> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core Message-ID: <4A7A79BC.1030600@mapper.nl> In-Reply-To: <200908050654.26375.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <200908051414.49468.david@vizion2000.net> <20090805132755.GA21963@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <200908050654.26375.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE19012D0F9C53655D52965F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 05:27:55 Erik Trulsson wrote: > > =20 >> The amd64 architecture is called that because it was AMD who invented = and >> created it and was for a while the only one using it and since AMD nam= ed >> the architecture AMD64 that was the name FreeBSD used too. Later Inte= l >> also started using it (while using their own name(s) for it), but Free= BSD >> has stuck with the name amd64. >> =20 > > This isn't completely correct. There is actually an ia64 architecture, = before=20 > Intel was ready to give up the "who dictates the PC 64bit architecture"= =20 > battle. There's a handful of CPU's who use that instruction set, but la= ter=20 > Intel switched to supporting AMD's instruction set and thus the PC 64 b= it=20 > architecture now is amd64. > > It'll be fun to see people asking in a few years why Oracle processors = are=20 > called "sparc64"... > =20 Now I come to think of it, isn't it strange apple(or IBM) never joined in the whole 64-bits naming race spactacle. No one ever calls a PowerPC 970 processor a PowerPC-64, or a IBM64 or anything like it... Nor have I ever heard the term RISC64. Too bad we won't have to worry about that anymore, since PowerPC is dead and Mac Pro's are now amd64(or Intel 64 or x86-64 whichever would be the "correct" term ;-) ) --------------enigE19012D0F9C53655D52965F8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkp6eb8ACgkQN9xNqOOVnWDJKwCgjH4rK+zROQk5qAke2GQTc/0E g0EAn1hGVXde5NkIvg/5VB9yLLoMcVwY =0ecg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE19012D0F9C53655D52965F8--
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