Once upon a time, Jon Masters <jonathan(a)jonmasters.org> said:
Indeed. Paul, take a look at the Intel 64 ISA and you'll see
it's a very
different beast. Intel fixed a lot of the issues with the (more than 20
year old really x86 ISA)
That would be AMD that fixed it, not Intel. Intel tried to push
everybody to a new architecture (Itanium), while AMD revised and
extended i386 to 64 bits. After Itanium failed to catch on in the
marketplace, Intel had to copy AMD's work.
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