64-bits platform question

[Freddie Cash]

On Thursday 22 February 2007 12:28 am, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Aard Nerd wrote:
>  > Hi list, as far as I know Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as
>  > Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology, or Intel EM64T)
>
> Why formerly?  As far as I know, intel's implementation
> of the AMD64 extension is _still_ called EM64T.  Do not
> confuse it with IA64 which is something completely
> different.

They changed the name of their 64-bit extensions to x86 to Intel64 (not to 
be confused with IA64) a couple months back.  It doesn't seem to have 
taken root, though, as everywhere you look it's still referred to EM64T.  
There was even a thread about this on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists 
(although I don't feel like searching for the reference).

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Freddie Cash
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