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CamperBob2 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.

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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