> Except every vendor doesn't. By some magic voodoo witchcraft, x86 remains consistently capable of producing a single kernel that can run on anything from Inte

> Except every vendor doesn't. By some magic voodoo witchcraft, x86 remains consistently capable of producing a single kernel that can run on anything from Intel or AMD. The "magic voodoo witchcraft" is Microsoft's "Hardware Compatibility Specifications for Windows". https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/compatibility/1703/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com... Linux and the other free OSes run on commodity x86 hardware by targeting the same Microsoft-issued specification. There is no standards body or other neutral organization that defines what an x86 PC is.