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0 pointsjolmg5y ago0 comments

With AMD64? I thought that was completely backwards compatible with x86. Or do you mean IA-64?

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The CPUs can also run x86, but the AMD64 instruction set itself (now commonly and incorrectly called x86-64) is significantly cleaned up.

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0 pointsjolmg5y ago0 comments

With AMD64? I thought that was completely backwards compatible with x86. Or do you mean IA-64?

The CPUs can also run x86, but the AMD64 instruction set itself (now commonly and incorrectly called x86-64) is significantly cleaned up.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse