kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 06 August 2009 pm 14:35:40 Mark Stapper wrote:
> Mel Flynn wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 05:27:55 Erik Trulsson wrote:
> >> The amd64 architecture is called that because it was AMD who
> >> invented and created it and was for a while the only one
>
> Now I come to think of it, isn't it strange apple(or IBM) never
> joined in the whole 64-bits naming race spactacle.

Because people using them, new what they were doing.

> Nor have I ever heard the term RISC64. Too bad we won't have to
> worry about that anymore, since PowerPC is dead and Mac Pro's
> are now amd64(or Intel 64 or x86-64 whichever would be the

IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for the 
Itanium?

Yes, also Intel can fail. Intel also failed with their first 32 
bit design. Wasn't iAPX-32 ist name? Long before the 80386 came 
up?

Erich