From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262106AbUBXJsc (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:48:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262174AbUBXJsc (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:48:32 -0500 Received: from ns.tasking.nl ([195.193.207.2]:53007 "EHLO ns.tasking.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262106AbUBXJsa (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:48:30 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 Organization: Altium SOFTWARE B.V. References: <20040223170336.GK5499@fs.tum.de> <16435.14044.182718.134404@alkaid.it.uu.se> <20040222025957.GA31813@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <20040223170336.GK5499@fs.tum.de> X-Face: "A(HPX!owGRCdtOX\NKs=ac*&x%/sYJMc;Mqd bqZYYQvB9_xdS1l+B2\z;:p71RNxrja;ir>Dj?6%GzFA!o>gOL&G}8X;icnhqP|=TU,O@JVM%5LL:X ,G&IkRk9n%h7hZFUltu%RB=ctrdfu?[vSRV%Wzcn;#o>[K0C6_'q*~^+toc))w-Qb8*,afMHVCrNG6 X-Attribution: KB From: Kees Bakker Reply-To: kees.bakker@altium.nl (Kees Bakker) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:47:06 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BH1VzooytEed1TCvt190Zc473G8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.17.1.96 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> Linus Torvalds writes: > > So AMD64 is a bad name, partly for the same reason IA32 is a horrible name > (and who have you ever heard use the IA32 name except for people who are > paid to do so by Intel?) So, what about these OSDL people :-) http://www.osdl.org/projects/26lnxstblztn/results/