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> Since its introduction over 20 years ago, the Intel® 64 architecture became the dominant operating mode. *cough*[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
by AdamH12113 3y ago
> Since its introduction over 20 years ago, the Intel® 64 architecture became the dominant operating mode.
*cough*[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#History
- mananaysiempre 3y agoI guess we should be thankful they aren’t still calling it EM64T :) I’ve also heard that the term AMD64 also originated from marketing—the internal name during development was x86-64 (which everybody but Microsoft ended up calling it anyway).
- deaddodo 3y ago"amd64" is the official name, per AMD; just as "ia32" is the official name of x86-32, per Intel. The fact that ia32 (and it's sub-classifiers: i386, i486, etc) is still somewhat used, while amd64 has almost completely disappeared is 100% due to Intel's marketing shenanigans in the 00s.
- circuit10 3y agoI see amd64 more often than I see ia32
- kinghajj 3y ago`amd64` is still what Debian and Kubernetes use.
- IntelMiner 3y agoGood fun when my dyslexia misreads "arm64" as "amd64" or vice-versa when going to grab software these days :(
- nsajko 3y agoGolang, too: https://go.dev/doc/install/source https://go.dev/doc/install/source
- karmakaze 3y agoApparently, Intel hates that Linux (properly) names the architecture amd64 according to its creator.
- sillywalk 3y agoand OpenBSD
- jhallenworld 3y agoPassive voice, "mistakes were made" (Itanium), etc.