Subj : X86S
To   : Digital Man
From : Spectre
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 12:09 pm

 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
 DM> would just be misattribution (though the base archicture/instruction set
 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

Was going to point out as I started reading, the Itanium arrived first, I
don't remember seeing it for anything other than server class hardware, and
everything had to be re-written/compiled for it.  Where as AMD64 was more an
extension for X32 and was backwardly compatible.

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