On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:01:37PM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: > Interesting. Thanks for the data point. > > The fact that amd64.org appears to be a cname for x86-64.org and all > the links on amd64.org point to x86-64.org pretty much sums up my > point of view. It doesn't really matter that much at the end of the > day. Way back in the day - when AMD started to with with ISV's pre-launch (April 21, 2003) it needed a name for this beast. AMD marketing was asked to name it - but they can never be bothered to do so until the month or two before launch. So the ISV Alliance Manger working with the open source communities of Linux and GNU tools, made up the name "x86-64". This is why this name came to be that was unsuitable as a name for development tools. He also registered the domain name x86-64 and had the x86-64 mailing lists created. About two months before launch AMD marketing took a hint from Microsoft (who were calling it AMD64 in their own source code) and blessed that as the official name. Then of course that name was registered in all the important TLD's and then CNAME'ed to the existing resources. -- -- David (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)Received on Tue Dec 04 2007 - 18:21:56 UTC
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