From: alexm0n@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 11:11:14 -0000 (UTC), David Chmelik wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 14:56:20 +0100, Ralph Spitzner wrote:   
   >> -current had no updates since the middle of December, any Idea what's   
   >> going on ?   
   >> Holidays ? [...]   
   >   
   > Everyone knows this is an architecture so what's the point of having   
   > that abbreviation in the name?  No one says amdarch64 or x86arch64.  Why   
   > not just say arm and assume it's 64-bit if 32-bit (arm32) is older and   
   > not made as much or anymore?   
      
   It would seem AArch64 is ARM's official naming for it, not something "we"   
   came up with. And for a shortened name, they also have chosen their own,   
   A64 (vs AArch32/A32).   
      
   Worse yet (subjective), Apple called it ARM64 when they developed support   
   for it, and when the GNU version was perhaps "sideported", they decided   
   to use the ARM64 code as a base and rename it AArch64 again...   
      
   Personally I think "Acorn" is still a cool name too. Ah well..   
      
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