Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:00:40 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Peeve: why "i386"? Message-ID: <20030605180040.A562@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <3EDFB3BB.7090300@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Why do all the BSDs continue to refer to the 32 bit Intel architecture > > as i386 even when they typically won't even install on an i386 any > > more? Why not call it x86, or ia32, if not in the kernel config then > > at least in the release notes and documentation, as everyone else has > > been doing for years? > > If it's that important to you, you're welcome to find all the places in > the source and doc that it's used, correct them and submit patches. Are you a committer, in particular a committer responsible for this? In other words, can your response be taken in any way as "official"? I wouldn't mind submitting patches to the doc project, if someone in charge of this asks. But obviously I can't submit patches for something like the release notes and publicity material of FreeBSD 5.1 (which is what I'm really talking about). Rahulhome | help
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