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> MSVC (and a lot of Microsoft stuff in general) uses amd64 as do many BSDs. That's partly because Microsoft had support for ia32 (x86) and ia64 (Itanium). So
by 908B64B197 3y ago
> MSVC (and a lot of Microsoft stuff in general) uses amd64 as do many BSDs.
That's partly because Microsoft had support for ia32 (x86) and ia64 (Itanium). So amd64 was to differentiate the architecture (and it was unclear Intel would ever extend x86).