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I'm not entirely convinced that x86-64 would have come on the scene in its current form had itanium not been invested into so heavily by intel (and been such a
by jerrysievert 6y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that x86-64 would have come on the scene in its current form had itanium not been invested into so heavily by intel (and been such a failure).
remember, intel seemed hesitant to extend the x86 architecture, and x86-64 came out of AMD.
- lizknope 6y agoLinux used to refer to the arch as amd64 and then Intel copied it a few years later. AMD licensed the EV6 bus from DEC and there was some discussion of having motherboards that could accept either an AMD K7 or DEC Alpha and just flash the BIOS. That might have made the Alpha last longer by having more low cost motherboards
- rstuart4133 6y agoIt's still referred to as amd64 in Debian.