[M3devel] target naming again..DJGPP?

[Jay]

While I favor AMD64, another popular name is X64.
 
 - Jay


From: jayk123 at hotmail.comTo: hosking at cs.purdue.edu; hendrik at topoi.pooq.comCC: m3devel at elegosoft.comSubject: RE: [M3devel] target naming again..DJGPP?Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:35:09 +0000


AMD was the original implementor. Intel is a clone. Admittedly AMD64 is derived from Intel 8086. AMD64 ascribes credit, and is shorter, is consistent with a widespread name that is not going away (not unique in this aspect), and avoids pesky characters like '-' or '_'.I cast my one vote for AMD64 (for the second time at least :) )  - Jay

> From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu> To: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:03:46 -0400> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com> Subject: Re: [M3devel] target naming again..DJGPP?> > Precisely! :-)> > Anyway, given that the target would be to both AMD and Intel versions > of x86_64/AMD64 perhaps it is best to go with a neutral name. To that > end, x86_64 is probably preferable to AMD64.> > On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:01 AM, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:> > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:12:00PM -0400, Tony Hosking wrote:> >> Even more amusing: http://www.x86-64.org/> >> > I gather that the amusing thing about x86-64.org is that they seem to> > talk only about AMD64?> >> > -- hendrik> 
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