Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:21:38 -0500 From: "Jason Burgess" <jb@fbfguns.com> To: <Chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Peeve: why "i386"? Message-ID: <3BD4A5842C8AE2428158AB1EE6DCC3774E61@mail.fbfguns.com>
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But, if we get it changed in the code and in the docs, then people will start to refer to it the new way. That may take years for it to sink into people heads though. Jason Burgess -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran@potentialtech.com]=20 Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 5:12 PM To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Peeve: why "i386"? Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: >>Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >>>Why do all the BSDs continue to refer to the 32 bit Intel architecture >>>as i386 even when they typically won't even install on an i386 any >>>more? Why not call it x86, or ia32, if not in the kernel config then >>>at least in the release notes and documentation, as everyone else has >>>been doing for years? >> >>If it's that important to you, you're welcome to find all the places in >>the source and doc that it's used, correct them and submit patches. >=20 > Are you a committer, in particular a committer responsible for this? > In other words, can your response be taken in any way as "official"? No. > I wouldn't mind submitting patches to the doc project, if someone in > charge of this asks. But obviously I can't submit patches for > something like the release notes and publicity material of FreeBSD 5.1 > (which is what I'm really talking about). I misunderstood. I read your original post to be referring to the docs and code and things like the kernel config file. Why it's still used in publicity material, I don't know. And to your unwritten complaint. Yes, that last answer was snippy. I apologize. --=20 Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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