cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc34 Makefile distinfo

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Fri Feb 20 08:17:04 PST 2004


"David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 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".

I think it's only fair.  Intel created the i386 and AMD copied it; we
still call it the i386.  AMD created the amd64 and Intel copied it;
we should still call it the amd64.

DES
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