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Re: platform/pc64 will be dropped


From: "Martin P. Hellwig" <xng@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:45:17 +0200

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
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This, however, leaves us with an awkward name. Pc32 for x86_64? The pc32 name always seemed wrong. How about calling it "ibm-pc"? After all, that's the basic architecture, since almost 20 years. Actually, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense it me.
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+1, This does make more sense then pc32, after all it has been all about being compatible to IBM, in the early years that is, indeed now 25 years ago :-).


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