svn commit: r41175 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 12 21:12:02 UTC 2013
On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 9:49:24 am Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> Author: gavin
> Date: Tue Mar 12 13:49:24 2013
> New Revision: 41175
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41175
>
> Log:
> This, mostly in order:
> - Mention x86-64 as a common non-FreeBSD name for the amd64 platform
>
> Reviewed by: eadler
>
> Modified:
> head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
>
> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
>
==============================================================================
> --- 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). Also,
something like this should be on this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/about.html
--
John Baldwin
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