Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:52:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/news news.xml Message-ID: <XFMail.011023105224.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011023132709.B89427@coffee.q9media.com>
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On 23-Oct-01 Mike Barcroft wrote: > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> >> On 23-Oct-01 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: >> > asmodai 2001/10/23 06:07:59 PDT >> > >> > Modified files: >> > en/news news.xml >> > Log: >> > s/IA64/ia64/g so that it is consistent with previous entries. >> >> IA64 is the more proper way. > > HP used to refer to it as IA-64. It looks like they only refer to it > as the Itanium now. In any case, ia64 is clearly incorrect. > Similarly, IA-32 is misspelled ia32 on the main FreeBSD web page. Itanic^WItanium is just a chip name, much like Pentium II or Pentium III. The next IA-64 chip is McKinley IIRC. Hmm, the IA-64 books from Intel refer to the architecture as IA-64. The IA-32 manuals use IA-32 for that arch. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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