Subj : X86S
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Apr 23 2024 12:51 pm

  Re: X86S
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Tue Apr 23 2024 11:24 am

 >> of our test systems, and they were often labeled as x86 or AMD64).

 DM> Yeah, that's because AMD did it first and Intel followed. FreeBSD (at
 DM> least) still refers to the x86_64 architecture as "amd64" everywhere. I
 DM> prefer just to refer to it as "x64" and certainly never "Intel 64" - that

Yep.  I also prefer to call it x64 (or x86_64).

 DM> was definitely created by Intel). But Intel had its go with the Itanium
 DM> (IA64) architecture, which flopped, so if they want to claim
 DM> invention/ownership of a 64-bit PC/server architecture, they should claim
 DM> that one.

Yeah, I remember hearing about the Itanium.

Nightfox
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