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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@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
@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...