<div dir="ltr">Thanks for this thread guys, that was a lovely and interesting read! :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Behan Webster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:behanw@converseincode.com" target="_blank">behanw@converseincode.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 01/30/14 14:45, PaX Team wrote:<br>
> On 30 Jan 2014 at 14:21, Behan Webster wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Really? I thought Debian was using "amd64" long before it was referred<br>
>> to as x86_64...<br>
> the work began in 99 or so, SuSE joined in 2000 or around that, and the first<br>
> public release of code/docs happened some years later, in 2003 by which point<br>
> the original name was well established among those who had worked on it. amd<br>
> tried to change it in a last minute marketing effort to little avail as we<br>
> now know ;).<br>
><br>
> some history: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=debian-devel&m=105131499612169&w=2" target="_blank">http://marc.info/?l=debian-devel&m=105131499612169&w=2</a><br>
><br>
>> But, you're right. A lot of the original work must have been done by AMD...<br>
> by that time it was entirely amd's work, intel didn't even have working hw<br>
> until 2004 or so and they never ever acknowledged amd's efforts in their<br>
> official publications (which in turn pissed off many people at the time to<br>
> the point that even Linus was considering an arch rename to amd64 in the<br>
> linux sources out of spite).<br>
</div>Seems I should have blamed AMD. ;)<br>
<br>
I stand corrected.<br>
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Behan<br>
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