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Old 8th July 2010
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
amd64 is an x86-based architecture. You and BSDfan666 are in violent agreement.
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Originally Posted by rpindy View Post
amd64 is also called x86_64. So the _64 is just tacked on when referring to 64 bit.
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
That's just the vendor-neutral way of referring to it, but, really, AMD came up with it first, so it's amd64, just like how the x86 port is called i386.

Clearly all of this is redundant though, and has little baring on this thread.
All very true. When I think of x86, though, I think of the 32-bit variant.
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