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To: Kees Bakker <kees.bakker@altium.nl>
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Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:47:06AM +0100, Kees Bakker wrote:
> >>>>> 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/
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

You know, it probably violates some IBM patents...