Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 20:21:58 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Peeve: why "i386"? Message-ID: <20030609182157.GC405@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030609110705.GC34980@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <20030606125417.A3489@online.fr> <20030609110705.GC34980@iconoplex.co.uk>
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--i7F3eY7HS/tUJxUd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.06.09 12:07:05 +0100, Paul Robinson wrote: > OK, so if at the start of the handbook and on the website (the first=20 > paragraph on the homepage) it is appears as: >=20 > What is FreeBSD? > FreeBSD is a modern operating system derived from the BSD UNIX developed = at > the University of California, Berkeley. It is available for a wide range = of > platforms including desktop PCs (called by various people at different ti= mes > the x86, i386, IA-32 and PC-98 architectures - we prefer to refer just to > i386 even though we mean everything from the 386 onwards), and the DEC > Alpha, IA-64 and UltraSPARC architectures. It is developed by a large team > of individuals, mostly volunteers. But PC-98 is not just another name for i386, it actually has some differences to standard i386. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --i7F3eY7HS/tUJxUd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+5NBF8kocFXgPTRwRAmzkAJ9+HEDQFMUaDB8yw6XsqbE5y+uypwCaA+dA 8AcS68yzV57MGj5WOPMkgi4= =D/RB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i7F3eY7HS/tUJxUd--
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