Ok maybe not incorrect, but confusing to Joe public. Let me rephrase:
"Surely
this can be confusing". x86-64 would be maybe more palatable?
On Jul 30, 10:41 am, pierrel <pierre..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi code releaser,
>
> Why is the x64 tsvn downloads labeled as AMD64 Architecture? Surely
> this is incorrect. Microsoft uses x64 (or x86-64) to refer to CPUs can
> natively run programs that run on x86 processors from Intel, Advanced
> Micro Devices (AMD), and other vendors.
>
> The generic term x86 refers to the instruction set of the most
> commercially successful CPU architecture in the history of personal
> computing.[1] It is used in processors from Intel, AMD, VIA, and
> others, and derived from the model numbers of the first few
> generations of processors, backward compatible with Intel's original
> 16-bit 8086 CPU, most of which were ending in 86.[2] Since then, many
> additions and extensions have been added to the x86 instruction set,
> almost consistently with full backwards compatibility.
>
> x86-64 is a 64-bit superset of the x86 instruction set architecture.
> Because the x86-64 instruction set is a superset of the x86
> instruction set, all instructions in the x86 instruction set can be
> executed by central processing units (CPUs) that implement the x86-64
> instruction set; therefore these CPUs can natively run programs that
> run on x86 processors from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and
> other vendors.
>
> x86-64 was designed by AMD, who have since renamed it AMD64. It has
> been cloned by Intel under the name Intel 64 (formerly known as EM64T
> among other names).[1] This leads to the common use of the names
> x86-64 or x64 as more vendor-neutral terms to collectively refer to
> the two nearly identical implementations.
>
> x86-64 should not be confused with the Intel Itanium architecture,
> also known as IA-64, which is not compatible on the native instruction
> set level with the x86 or x86-64 architecture.
>
> Regards,
> Pierre
>
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