svn commit: r46400 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 3 16:59:56 UTC 2015
On Wednesday, April 01, 2015 05:08:32 AM Eitan Adler wrote:
> Author: eadler
> Date: Wed Apr 1 05:08:31 2015
> New Revision: 46400
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46400
>
> Log:
> Minimum Hardware Requirements: installation instructions
>
> Sacrifice some technical pedanticness to simplify the description of amd64 and
> i386. For the users whom are actually confused as to which system they should
> use, using more plain language (such as 32-bit vs 64-bit) and referencing the
> vendors directly would be more helpful.
>
> Also, stop mentioning that both UP and SMP are supported. OpenBSD finished that
> project in 2004.
Mostly looks good, some nits:
> + <para>There are two primary vendors of &arch.amd64;
> + processors: &intel; (which produces
> + <acronym>EM64T</acronym> class processors) and AMD (which
> + produces <acronym>AMD64</acronym>).</para>
IIRC, Intel uses "Intel64" not "EM64T" nowadays. I think EM64T was actually
relatively short lived.
> + <para>Examples of &arch.amd64; compatible processsors
> + include: &amd.athlon;64, &amd.opteron;,
> + multi-core &intel; &xeon;, and
> + &intel; &core; 2 and later processors.</para>
> </listitem>
> </varlistentry>
>
> <varlistentry>
> <term>&arch.i386;</term>
> <listitem>
> + <para>This architecture is the 32-bit version of the
> + &arch.amd64; archiecture.</para>
architecture is misspelled, but saying this is the 32-bit version of amd64
isn't really quite right either. You wouldn't say that a manual was the
simpler version of an automatic transmission.
I would probably say "32-bit x86 architecture".
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John Baldwin
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