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> The people who designed it call it AMD64 They did not, at the time. I have a set of original manuals for the AMD "x86-64" architecture (with a dash, not an
by newacct583 6y ago
> The people who designed it call it AMD64
They did not, at the time. I have a set of original manuals for the AMD "x86-64" architecture (with a dash, not an underscore).
- chrisseaton 6y agoYes and I think it had another code-name before then. But taking x86-64 and making it x86_64 is even more lunacy - why change the punctuation to give us another subtlety different name? Why does everyone want to invent their own name for this thing?
- cesarb 6y ago> But taking x86-64 and making it x86_64 is even more lunacy There are contexts where hyphens are not allowed but underscores are, like identifiers in many programming languages. Replacing the hyphen with an underscore is an obvious workaround.
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- newacct583 6y ago> why change the punctuation to give us another subtlety different name? Because one is a legal part of a symbol name in C and the other only works in lisp.