From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 22 16:41:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7A216A400 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:41:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F7D313C4B5 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:41:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78CA91A000B1C for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:23:40 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at smtp.sd73.bc.ca Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id h+CWxRrb9O0e for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from coal (s10.sbo [192.168.0.10]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C071A000B20 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:23:23 -0800 (PST) From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:23:21 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200702220828.l1M8Saf2019587@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200702220828.l1M8Saf2019587@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702220823.22218.fcash@ocis.net> Subject: Re: 64-bits platform question X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:41:58 -0000 On Thursday 22 February 2007 12:28 am, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Aard Nerd wrote: > > Hi list, as far as I know Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as > > Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology, or Intel EM64T) > > Why formerly? As far as I know, intel's implementation > of the AMD64 extension is _still_ called EM64T. Do not > confuse it with IA64 which is something completely > different. They changed the name of their 64-bit extensions to x86 to Intel64 (not to be confused with IA64) a couple months back. It doesn't seem to have taken root, though, as everywhere you look it's still referred to EM64T. There was even a thread about this on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists (although I don't feel like searching for the reference). -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net