From: anton@nospicedham.mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   "Kerr-Mudd, John"  writes:   
   >I guess x86 means 32bit nowadays!   
      
   That's the problem with "x86": People use it to mean any of several   
   different ISAs.  So better avoid that term, and use:   
      
   8086 (rarely called IA-16) when you mean that instruction set.   
   IA-32 when you mean that instruction set (first implementation: 80386)   
   AMD64 when you mean that instruction set (first implementation: AMD K8   
                                             (Opteron, Athlon 64))   
      
   And then there are extensions, like the additional 80186 and 80286   
   instructions (plus the 80286 offers protected mode), or SSE, SSE2,   
   AVX, ...   
      
   Now what does that mean for the name of this newsgroup.   
      
   - anton   
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