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[John Baldwin]

On Monday 20 September 2004 05:18 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:41:26AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> > "David E. O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.org> wrote
> > obrien>   Log:
> > obrien>   Use consistent wording.
>
> ..
>
> > -		x86 compatible, AMD64 and Intel EM64T, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98
> > +		x86 compatible, AMD64 compatible, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98
>
> ..
>
> >  I would like to make it clear that FreeBSD supports EM64T
> >  by using the Intel's architecture name because the word
> >  AMD64 can confuse the users.  Is that unacceptable?
>
> If I can list AMD Athlon, AMD K6, AMD K5, VIA, Cyrix, Transmeta, National
> Semiconductor, IBM, etc... in the list rather than "x86 compatible".  For
> Alpha we would need to add Samsung, who also made some Alpha dirivitives.
> For Sparc64 we would need to add Fujitsu.
> Where does it stop?
>
> People owning Intel EM64T machines well know that it is a copy of the
> AMD64 platform.

x86 doesn't say Intel in the name, whereas amd64 does have AMD in its name.  
Maybe if we just called it 'x86-64 compatible' rather than 'amd64 
compatible'?

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