Subj : X86S
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Apr 23 2024 11:24:24

  Re: X86S
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Apr 23 2024 09:38 am

 >   Re: X86S
 >   By: Digital Man to fusion on Mon Apr 22 2024 08:29 pm
 >
 >  >>
 > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisi
 >  >> o nin g-future-simplified-architecture.html
 >
 >  DM> Funny how they refer to it as "Intel 64 mode" when AMD actually
 >  DM> invented it.
 >
 > I've seen it refered to as "AMD64" fairly often, and sometimes I've seen
 > people confused about whether something built for AMD64 will run on an Intel
 > system. Even some people I worked with at Intel were sometimes confused
 > about that (sometimes we'd download Linux ISOs to install on some of our
 > test systems, and they were often labeled as x86 or AMD64).

Yeah, that's because AMD did it first and Intel followed. FreeBSD (at least) still refers to the x86_64 architecture as "amd64" everywhere. I prefer just to refer to it as "x64" and certainly never "Intel 64" - that would just be misattribution (though the base archicture/instruction set was definitely created by Intel). But Intel had its go with the Itanium (IA64) architecture, which flopped, so if they want to claim invention/ownership of a 64-bit PC/server architecture, they should claim that one.
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