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AMD uses x86.
by arcanemachiner 4y ago
AMD uses x86.
- bluGill 4y agoAMD had their own non-x86 instruction set once upon a time. I remember using it in the mid-90s in some embedded thing it worked, but as a developer once there is a compiler all instruction sets are hidden so I can't comment.
- therealcamino 4y agoMaybe the 29000 is the one you're thinking of? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am29000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am29000 The article says it got designed in to a bunch of laser printers, but not which ones. There were a bunch of RISC designs floating around then. The ones still relatively familiar are those that were being used as workstation CPUs -- SPARC, MIPS, POWER/PowerPC, DEC Alpha. But there were also the 29k, the Motorola 88000, and Intel i860. Probably others I'm not remembering.