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Why is 64 bits version called AMD64 and 32 bits version called i386?

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Mar 15, 202616237 views
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I have never understood this. This is what I know: You need a 64 bit OS if you want to handle more than 2 GB RAM. Else, a 32 bit OS is sufficient. So on Ubuntu's homepage you can download either 64 bit or 32 bit versions. But the 64 bit version is called and the 32 bit verison is called . So I have…

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The 64-bit version is typically called 'amd64' because AMD developed the 64-bit instruction extensions. (AMD extended the x86 architecture to 64 bits while Intel was working on Itanium, but Intel later adopted those same instructions.) The 32-bit ve…

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