site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Aug 9, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Graham J Lee wrote: On 9 Aug 2006, at 12:53, Chad Leigh wrote: - Kevin _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Would be nice if Darwin/Apple etc used a name that is already in use by others so a to not offer more confusion. how about EM64T, or "washing machine controller chip with a few extensions"? Seriously, AMD invented this stuff and they call it x86-64, so I think that's a reasonable decision and already in use. i38664 would have been wrong. NetBSD, RedHat/Fedora/Centos use x86_64. The kernel and developer tools have standardized on "x86_64" for the name of the Mach-O architecture. Using x86_64 is probably the most straightforward way to describe 64-bit on Intel as supported by Mac OS X. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com