64 bit linux on Intel T9600

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Jun 19 16:13:19 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:16:09AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Maybe they could just rename any IA-64 to "Itanium" and slowly phase
> out the old naming scheme.
> 
> It would probably solve a lot of confusion, unless there are other
> things that can use IA-64?

The internet never forgets.  The itanium architecture is IA64, and that is
never changing.  We are stuck with the mess intel's marketing people made.

Intel calling it em64t when copying amd64 sure didn't help things.
What a stupid name.

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