cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc34 Makefile distinfo

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:46:42AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, David O'Brien wrote:
> >> (In any case, shouldn't amd64-freebsd be renamed back to x86_64-freebsd,
> >> given Intel's announcement two days ago?)
> > NO!
> 
> You are obviously biased (given your day job).

I am, but I've never demanded that FreeBSD's use of "i386" and "ia32" be
changed.  AMD has affected the modern 32-bit x86 architecture as much as
Intel has.  AMD paid all the millions and millions for the ISV & IHV
support.  W/o AMD going to market with this design there would be no
"ia32e" from Intel.  Intel had no choice and was totally forced by the
market to do their "ia32e".  We owe honoring AMD by calling the platform
"amd64".

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)