On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:52:46AM +0200, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> May I ask why? I know that Microsoft calls its Windows version like that
> but that doesn't seem like a good reason.

I don't know about Microsoft; I just know that AMD has given the processor
family this name at the launch. The name x86-64 is no more.

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                            fvdl@netbsd.org
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