From: nowhere@nospicedham.never.at   
      
   On 11.08.2021 09:59, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   > "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.   
      
   I wont recommend to split our CLAX into several CPU-related groups.   
   all Intel/AMD 16 bit instruction sets are different for CPU families.   
   And almost all regular readers of this group are aware of this anyway.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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