HEADS UP - More major build infrastructure changes

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Mon Nov 6 15:41:05 PST 2006


:Gergo Szakal wrote:
:> I think "pc" is confusing enough as well. I vote for "x86".
:
:AMD64 is x86 as well, as is 8086, etc. What really is meant here is 
:machines with x86 processors and PC-compatible BIOSes.
:
:Cheers,
:-- 
:         Thomas E. Spanjaard
:         tgen at xxxxxxxxxxxxx

    The pc32 is the platform architecture, not the cpu architecture.  The
    cpu architecture is i386.  Insofar as I know, x86 is not a platform
    architecture, it's a cpu architecture.

						-Matt






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