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Author: Dale Farnsworth
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: AMD64
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 05:47:07AM +0000, David Huerta wrote:
> >From what I understand, the AMD64 chipset is basically two 32-bit AMD
> chips sandwiched together to act like a 64-bit dual-processor-ish system.


Thanks for the laugh. That's hilarious.
The AMD64 is a 64-bit processor whose instruction set is an extension
of IA32 in exactly the same way the the Pentium 4 is a 32-bit processor
whose instruction set is an extension of the 8086.

-Dale
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