Peeve: why "i386"?

[Makoto Matsushita]

rsidd> Debian (to take a random example):
rsidd> http://www.debian.org/ports/
rsidd> Intel x86 / IA-32 (``i386'')...
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Please note that "(Put your favorite OS except FreeBSD) calls it ia32,
so should we" is bad idea, since FreeBSD is FreeBSD :-)  And, the
message you mention is that "i386" is very common name for PCs, they
cannot simply says it's x86 and/or IA-32.

We're not teacheres of computer architecture; the name should be
common to us, rather than strict meanings.

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Makoto `MAR' Matsushita