[Python-Dev] Fwd: Download Page - AMD64 (original) (raw)

Michael Urman murman at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 21:12:11 CET 2010

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 13:45, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

So to echo what Michael said, the Microsoft nomenclature is "x64" regardless of yours and Martin's objections to that name. Nobody who uses Windows would be confused by "x64" since that is the Microsoft naming scheme. That's actually not entirely true. There are several places in the APIs where Microsoft either allows or requires to call the architecture AMD64 (e.g. architecture indication in MSI files).

I should have clarified I was talking about the names shown on MSDN subscriptions for downloading installation media of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. It's pretty clear in that context Microsoft uses x64 to describe this platform of Windows. But again, it's far from clear that this is a term they use for non-developers.

-- Michael Urman

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