Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

Aaron Lehmann
2004-02-18T19:13:24Z

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:56:44AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> What about naming? IA-64 is taken, AMD64 is too specific, Intel's
> "IA-32e" sounds too vague, and I find x86-64 / x86_64 difficult to type.
> "x64" perhaps?

I feel that AMD64 is appropriate. We've been calling all the AMD/Cyrix
chips IA32 processors, and this is no different.