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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:02:06 +0100
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64
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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.