[ILUG] braun's choice?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Paul Jakma (paul at clubi.ie):

> EMT64T and AMD64 are different architectures, very similar but with 
> differences - hence their usage is valid.

Paul is of course completely missing my point, and ranting on something
irrelevant.  I did NOT allege that EM64T and AMD64 are the same
architecture.  Let me try explaining again, in smaller words, this time:

When AMD introduced the IA32 extensions used in Opteron chips, its
initial name for that spec _was x86_64_.  Much later, AMD management 
unilaterally decided to rename it "AMD64".  (Intel has always called its
extremely similar spec "EM64T".)

My point, which Paul seemingly did not comprehend, was that "x86_64"
has persisted as an umbrella term in part because it doesn't include the
name of either vendor.

> (And it's x86-64 btw....)

The industry seems not to agree with Paul.  Tant pis pour lui.
(I rather wish it would, though:  That underscore is obnoxious.)

> >>Itanium/Itanium2 (dubbed "Itanic" by TheReg) architecture -- whose
> >>existence hints at one of the problems with "lib64" directories: the
> >>a namespace collision with Itanium.
> 
> Waffle.

Used cow food.

Again, Paul utterly misses my point.  Contrary to Paul's inference I
certainly nowhere claimed that "lib64" isn't a long-standing convention
from other multiarch machines -- and his digression on that point was
gloriously irrelevant to what I wrote.

For more on the libs problem in multiarch machines, one might look here:
https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#installation