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cm3 on April 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel made a huge mistake 10 years ago

Yeah, but given the various names others came up for it, it would have been nice to have one short name. It's normal for difference to exist even withing revisions of a chip, so it wouldn't have hurt anyone to use one name, When we say x86, we mean everything Intel from the 1980s until now, including Cyrix, AMD, Via, etc. 32bit or 64bit.

CamperBob2 on April 21, 2016 [–]

Yeah, but given the various names others came up for it, it would have been nice to have one short name.

Colloquially, "x64" works pretty well.

cm3 on April 21, 2016 | [–]

Yep, it's quite odd but works, though many dismiss it as the inferior name, no idea why.

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