On: Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode

[askvictor]

amd64 looks much too similar to arm64 (though that's the latter's fault)

[pgeorgi → askvictor]

arm64's official name is AArch64

[naikrovek → pgeorgi]

I don't think that's the case anymore. at the very least they are interchangeable names, and I believe that "arm64" is the name going forward.

I read this somewhere a couple weeks back, but I don't remember the source.

[pgeorgi → naikrovek]

https://developer.arm.com/architectures mentions AArch64, no mention of arm64. There's "A64" for the instruction set, and https://developer.arm.com/Architectures/A64%20Instruction%20... also mentions the various armv8-* names, but still no mention of arm64.

[alfalfasprout → askvictor]

there'a also `aarch64`