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64-bit x86 Computing Reaches 10th Anniversary

Posted by Unknown on from the long-live-athlonmp dept.

illiteratehack writes "10 years ago AMD released its first Opteron processor, the first 64-bit x86 processor. The firm's 64-bit 'extensions' allowed the chip to run existing 32-bit x86 code in a bid to avoid the problems faced by Intel's Itanium processor. However AMD suffered from a lack of native 64-bit software support, with Microsoft's Windows XP 64-bit edition severely hampering its adoption in the workstation market." But it worked out in the end.

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  1. Re:Let us give thanks.... by muon-catalyzed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The people at AMD who did this, an unquestionably biggest AMD's achievement to date, they should be rehired and given executive positions.