I do not like that both "ARM" and "AMD" begin with the letter A. I do not like this because sometimes people abbreviate "ARM" as "A" but the major competing platform to ARM is AMD64 and I get confused.
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@resuna Perhaps for clarity we should shorten Apple SIliCon to "ASIC"
@mcc aarch is short for "aardvark architecture"
@mcc It’s our fault. Acorn called itself that because they wanted to be listed before Apple, as Apple wanted to be listed before Atari.
@Cdespinosa @mcc I feel like this revelation utterly changes my decades-long headcanon of these companies. I always thought it was some coincidence or prevailing fashion thing, and not pettiness.
@jripley @Cdespinosa wait hold on every other post i've boosted in this thread was a joke was this the one serious one
@mcc @Cdespinosa I knew it had to be true before confirming it (and I checked nobody just edited) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers
> Acorn was chosen because the microcomputer system was to be expandable and growth-oriented. It also had the attraction of appearing before "Apple Computer" in a telephone directory.
@mcc I lean toward "ARM64" (or "A64" for brevity) and "X64" (as a descendant of x86/i32), but I don't think that's at all common usage...
@mcc because both Intel and AMD make processors for AMD64, I like to call it IA64
AMD should get bought by *picking a name randomly* Binance. Wait. Wait no. No i take it back I TAKE IT BACK
@mcc Nonono, AMD should start making aarch64 CPUs! Or better yet aarch64 and amd64 cores on the same chip…
(wait, they actually do technically already have an 32 bit ARM core on some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor)
@mcc more than once burnt an ARM ISO by accident
@mcc Since AMD64 is popular on personal computers, I just abbreviate it as PPC (Personal PC).
@mcc I do keep wondering if it's just me that's incredibly easily confused by lots of names in the same setting beginning with the same letter
@mcc To disambiguate, one could use "A" for one architecture and "M" for the other .... 🤔
@mcc I still reasonably frequently download arm64 images instead of amd64 images, and vice-versa :(
@mcc i have never seen people abbreviate ARM as A.
@dysfun@treehouse.systems @mcc@mastodon.social The only place where this is true is AArch64
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In ARMv8-A and later, A32, T32 and A64 are instruction sets that execute in the AArch32 or AArch64 execution states. In ARMv7 and earlier, the first two instruction sets were called ARM and Thumb respectively
I don't see why anyone is confused 
@mcc what really makes my biscuit is Apple deciding to call ARM "Apple Silicon" and people using various abbreviations of apple and apple silicone to indicate ARM. And yes I know that there is more than just the ARM core in there, but Jesus Christ.