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Well, I suppose it wouldn't be expedient for Intel to call it amd64, but of all the nicknames for that arch, I do hate x64 the most. Do people think x86 was a l
by tsuraan 14y ago
Well, I suppose it wouldn't be expedient for Intel to call it amd64, but of all the nicknames for that arch, I do hate x64 the most. Do people think x86 was a line of 86-bit processors that got slimmed down to make the x64 line?
- anonymfus 14y agoFirst generations of consumer x64 processors were named Athlon 64, so you can read x64 as Athlon 64 compatible if you really want uniformity. x86 also started as unofficial shorthand.