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There once was a chip called 8086, with a cheaper version called 8088 that was used in a personal computer called IBM PC. An improved version of that chip was made and called 80186, though that wasn't a very popular version. However, an improved version was then made and called 80286. Now, that was a very popular chip used in the IBM PC AT.
Later, Intel, which created and sold the 8086, 8088, 80186, and 80286 chips, all of which had a 16 bits architecture, saw the need to create a 32 bits chip to compete with similar offerings by others. To take advantage of its incumbent position, it made the new chip capable of running software made for the previously mentioned chips. Naturally, Intel called this new chip the 80386, and people started referring to them as 80x86.
After a while, Intel launched a new chip, but it decided to drop the 80, so it became the 486 instead of 80486. Likewise, people were dropping the "80" from the front of "80x86", and calling this stuff just x86.
So, once Intel finally went 64 bits, what did it call its new architecture? Right! IA64! :-) Only IA64 was not compatible with x86, I mean, IA32, so everyone ignored it.
And then came AMD, which decided the market wanted a 64 bits CPU that was compatible, to the extent possible, with the x86 family. As a marketing appeal, they called it the "x86-64" family, and they were hugely successful. So much so that Intel ended up grudgingly following with their own 64 bits CPU based on x86.
Later, Intel, which created and sold the 8086, 8088, 80186, and 80286 chips, all of which had a 16 bits architecture, saw the need to create a 32 bits chip to compete with similar offerings by others. To take advantage of its incumbent position, it made the new chip capable of running software made for the previously mentioned chips. Naturally, Intel called this new chip the 80386, and people started referring to them as 80x86.
After a while, Intel launched a new chip, but it decided to drop the 80, so it became the 486 instead of 80486. Likewise, people were dropping the "80" from the front of "80x86", and calling this stuff just x86.
So, once Intel finally went 64 bits, what did it call its new architecture? Right! IA64! :-) Only IA64 was not compatible with x86, I mean, IA32, so everyone ignored it.
And then came AMD, which decided the market wanted a 64 bits CPU that was compatible, to the extent possible, with the x86 family. As a marketing appeal, they called it the "x86-64" family, and they were hugely successful. So much so that Intel ended up grudgingly following with their own 64 bits CPU based on x86.
The x86_64 instruction set enables a single process to address more than 4GB of RAM. This enables one to have hundreds of porn tabs open all at the same time in the Chrome browser.
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An elementary school teacher named Mrs. Hawthorn is a victim of our hypersexualized society. When Mrs. Hawthorn saw the first-grader sucking the horn of the unicorn on the playground, she nearly had a seizure. Mrs. Hawthorn dragged that first-grader straight to the principal, where he served detention for 3 weeks.
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