Timeline for Question a/ Computer Architecture terminology on-topic?
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| Jun 10, 2015 at 19:14 | comment | added | user402879 | I was using the word "discussion" loosely. I didn't mean it as a discussion. I just wanted to know if someone here knew why. | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 19:00 | comment | added | Ramhound | @SarahofGaia - Superuser isn't the place for discussion. The reason Intel calls their architecture x86 is because of their internal part numbers. iI still maintain I don't even know what the question, you wanted to know, if you should ask or not was. Hopefully it wasn't something explained in a wikipedia article. | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 18:56 | comment | added | user402879 | @Ramhound: Exactly what I mean. Such a discussion wouldn't be interesting to you. But just as I would find it interesting and clearly Hennes seemed to have found it interested, others most certainly would. Maybe not a lot of people, but some would, and this question would be for them. Not every question is going to interest the majority, let alone everyone. So whether it's interesting or not is hardly relevant to whether or not it should be posted. (It sounded to me like you were saying it's not an interesting question, so it shouldn't bother being posted.) | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 10:44 | comment | added | Ramhound | @SarahofGaia - I never once insulted you. I pointed out your question as written isn't clear and a discussion on why architectures are named they way they are is not that interesting. | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 3:51 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | I'd also add, X86_64 is also called AMD_64 (by amd, and in linux, since they invented it) or EMT_64T by intel. Names are hugely arbitrary. IA32 was x86_32 but IA64 was itanium, an entirely different architecture (VLIW, as opposed to CISC or RISCy CISC). | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 3:46 | comment | added | user402879 | @Hennes: That's quite interesting. Thank you. :) | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 3:46 | comment | added | user402879 | @Ramhound: Do you have a problem with being rude or something? Who cares if you don't find it interesting. The fact is I was asking because I find it interesting, and would like to know what others may think. Besides, just because you don't find it interesting doesn't mean others may not. Just because you don't find it interesting doesn't give you the right to insult me for posting. >:I | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 3:46 | comment | added | user402879 | @Hennes: That's why I asked here. I wasn't sure if it was on-topic. Isn't that part of what Meta sites are for? To help users find out if a topic is appropriate before they make the mistake of posting it? | |
| Jun 10, 2015 at 3:44 | comment | added | user402879 | @slhck: I was saying that I have an idea just as an aside. If you read on, you'll see I continued to say, "but I'm not entirely sure. I'd like to ask if there is a single answer or multiple possible answers, and if so, what it/they is/are." In other words, I was just saying I'm not entirely sure about my own personal speculations, and so that's why I'm asking here what others may think. | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 22:55 | comment | added | Hennes | Aye. I know amd64 is the extention to x86. But there is a whole world of architectures (MIPS, Alfa, Arm, x86, M68K, ...) and a lot of different widths (e.g. a 68000 is a 16 bit CPU with 24 address lines and 32 bit internal registers). Those things can be both fun and confusing. | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 22:40 | comment | added | Ramhound | It's not that interesting, we call them x86 and x86 because of the historical name of the products and the fact it's the x86 architecture and the x64 extension of the x86 architecture. | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 17:37 | comment | added | Hennes | Aye, why do we call it this is not S.E. That does not mean it is not very interesting to know though. As a question it is very interesting. Just maybe not on S.E. | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 17:22 | history | answered | slhckMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |