From: jrallen9 <jus...@te...> - 2011-04-25 16:44:56
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This is an accurate "brief" history of the amd64 nomenclature from wikipedia: <QUOTE> History of AMD64 AMD64 was created as an alternative to Intel and Hewlett Packard's radically different IA-64 architecture. Originally announced in 1999[6] with a full specification in August 2000,[7] the architecture was positioned by AMD from the beginning as an evolutionary way to add 64-bit computing capabilities to the existing x86 architecture, as opposed to Intel's approach of creating an entirely new 64-bit architecture with IA-64. The first AMD64-based processor, the Opteron, was released in April 2003. <QUOTE> |