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Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors" (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] bhamlin 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I sincerely hope that if they come up with a 128bit instruction set they call it "x80" to maintain backwards compatibility with previous set names and be deliberately confusing to everyone.

[–] InverseParallax 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

x87.

Because that would be unambiguous what it means.

[–] bhamlin 5 points 2 months ago

But 0x80 is how you'd normally express 128 as hex. So it's relevant. But deliberately confusing.