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'A64' is a crazy way to abbreviate - as the other main architecture is AMD64, so also 'A64'!
by chrisseaton 4y ago
'A64' is a crazy way to abbreviate - as the other main architecture is AMD64, so also 'A64'!
- Gravityloss 4y agoAMD was founded in 1969 while Arm in 1991. Advanced Micro Devices vs Advanced RISC Machines... some inspiration perhaps?
- klelatti 4y agoWell ARM was originally Acorn Risc Machines so they had to choose something that started with A!
- kramerger 4y agoI believe the official name is aarch64
- Liquid_Fire 4y agoOfficially, AArch64 is the name of the 64-bit execution state. The instruction set is called A64, to contrast it with the pre-v8 instruction sets A32 and T32 (formerly known as Arm and Thumb). That said, in practice many people use them interchangeably since A64 is the only instruction set available in AArch64.