> Even if they can do it while preserving older encodings, it's just another speedbump at a time when Intel is probably anxious to make x86-64 as frictionless a

> Even if they can do it while preserving older encodings, it's just another speedbump at a time when Intel is probably anxious to make x86-64 as frictionless as possible. Just wanted to throw out there that it was AMD that came up with x86-64's ISA rather than Intel. Intel was still pushing Itanium hard at the time.