"Saucy" <saucylemon@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> 32-bit so x86. Makes perfect sense to me. 86/32=2.6875*(11.906976744=32.)
>> I see. :O)
>>
> 'Comes from 8086 8088 i186 i286 i386 and i486. The i586 moniker never
> happened as Intel called it the Pentium, instead. The i386 (also called
> 80386) was the first to sport what is called "32-bit architecture". First
> to company to build gets to name:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I386
>
> Look to bottom of page for links to the various Intel processors. No, it comes from the x86 instruction set, used on those processors. x86-64
is a superset of that, and x64 must just be a contraction of that.
ss.