On 07/29/2007 07:41 PM, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:

Right sure, but not fair. It's the AMD64 architecture, which is IA32 +
AMD's 64-bit extensions to that architecture that Intel adopted under
the name EM64T.

I wonder why *this* is not explained in Intel's IA32 software developer's
manual ;)

You could call it petty, but IA64 was taken (harhar) and if I had been Intel I'd also not have called it AMD64 with bloody AMD having munched of my IA32 architecture for years... ;-)

Rene (running AMD CPUs).

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