svn commit: r41175 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:49:24 am Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> Author: gavin
> Date: Tue Mar 12 13:49:24 2013
> New Revision: 41175
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41175
> 
> Log:
>   This, mostly in order:
>    - Mention x86-64 as a common non-FreeBSD name for the amd64 platform
>   
>   Reviewed by:	eadler
> 
> Modified:
>   head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
> 
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
> 
==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Tue Mar 12 13:30:14 2013	
(r41174)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Tue Mar 12 13:49:24 2013	
(r41175)
> @@ -1126,7 +1127,9 @@
>  
>  	<answer>
>  	  <para>&arch.amd64; is the term &os; uses for 64-bit
> -	    compatible x86 architectures.  Most modern computers
> +	    compatible x86 architectures, sometimes referred to
> +	    as <quote>x86-64</quote> by other operating systems.
> +	    Most modern computers

I would suggest tweaking the wording here to say:

"64-bit compatible x86 architectures (also known as "x86-64" or "x64")".

as it is shorter (and mentions the "x64" alias that Windows uses).  Also, 
something like this should be on this page:

http://www.freebsd.org/about.html

-- 
John Baldwin