Ubuntu for 64-bit Intel Xeon 3 ghz

[Liam Proven]

On 4/1/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <mrd at alkemio.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:06:34PM -0600, Patrick Siglin wrote:
> > I would have thought that the amd64 version was written to take
> > advantage of the 64bit AMD's and not the intel.  I guess that the way
> > they work is about the same?
>
> Yes.  Intel's EM64T instruction set is the same as AMD's AMD64
> instruction set, but Intel doesn't want to admit that AMD beat them at
> bringing 64-bit computing to the consumer market.

To be fair, it should be noted that AMD were originally going to call
their 64-bit-extended x86 instruction set "x86-64", an eminently
sensible and descriptive name that would have caused a lot less
confusion. Intel might even happily have used that name.

I suspect that the AMD marketing lizards got to it, though, and it was
renamed "AMD64", which name obviously Intel would never use, even
though it swallowed its pride and copied AMD's extended instruction
set.

I believe that Linus Torvalds liked AMD's attitude and their boldness
in extending the x86 ISA this way, so he himself adopted the AMD64
nomenclature - so the blame for this confusion could be placed at
Linus' door.

Personally, I think that x86-64 is a much more informative description.

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