Stephen, AMD invented the 64 bit extensions to the x86 instruction set and brought their processors to market well before Intel brought theirs to market. Thus AMD won a huge amount of name recognition. Debian standardized on "amd64" to name packages for the architecture many years ago.
Stephen, AMD invented the 64 bit extensions to the x86 instruction set and brought their processors to market well before Intel brought theirs to market. Thus AMD won a huge amount of name recognition. Debian standardized on "amd64" to name packages for the architecture many years ago.
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