so... whats up with the x86 thing for 32 bit if 64 bit is x64? sorry for being so brief, im on a cell phone.
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Jump to Postx86 is an architecture that goes way back, all the way back to Intel's 16-bit processors. They named their processors things like 8086, and in later days 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, 80586, 80686 and so on. Because of this, the 'x' in x86 is just a wildcard.
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Jump to Postoh i thought that the x-- was the bit processing speed but its the architecture i guess. thanks!
These are names for the instruction set (also called the architecture), they are technically not supposed to be named after the 32 vs. 64 bit thing.
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Bravo, great detailed explanation
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