Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

Mikael Pettersson
2004-02-19T06:02:11Z

Aaron Lehmann writes:
> 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.

Actually I would call them x86, never IA32.