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

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:49:24 am Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> > --- 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).

Thanks, I've just made that change.

> Also,  something like this should be on this page:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/about.html

I'd like to mention x86-64 and x64 wherever the amd64 platform is 
mentioned in an introductory sense, actually.

Thanks,

Gavin