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> It was called AMD64 when AMD and Microsoft designed it, The original name was x86-64. Quoting myself (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36075840 https://n
by cesarb 3y ago
> It was called AMD64 when AMD and Microsoft designed it,
The original name was x86-64. Quoting myself (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36075840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36075840):
> I still shake my head at how they were able to successfully rebrand it from amd64 to x86-64
It's the opposite: the original name was x86-64, and amd64 is a later rebranding. See, for instance, the original web site for this (then) new architecture: https://web.archive.org/web/20000829042251/http://www.x86-64.org/about https://web.archive.org/web/20000829042251/http://www.x86-64...
- sedatk 3y agoYes, but that doesn't contradict with what I said. AMD had pivoted to "AMD64" soon after and that was before Intel had released their own name: EM64T. Microsoft coined x64 around that time, probably found it more marketable than x86-64, becuase they had used it in commercial branding such as "Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" too. (They couldn't call Windows XP "64-bit edition" because that term was used for their Itanium-based (IA64) products).