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by jolmg 2039 days ago
With AMD64? I thought that was completely backwards compatible with x86. Or do you mean IA-64?
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lucian1900 2038 days ago
The CPUs can also run x86, but the AMD64 instruction set itself (now commonly and incorrectly called x86-64) is significantly cleaned up.
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