• Thumbnail for X86-64
    x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first announced in 1999. It introduced two new...
    115 KB (11,446 words) - 18:48, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for X86
    x86 microarchitectures, circuitry and semiconductor manufacturing would make it hard to replace x86 in many segments. AMD's 64-bit extension of x86 (which...
    104 KB (10,727 words) - 17:55, 24 July 2024
  • This article describes the calling conventions used when programming x86 architecture microprocessors. Calling conventions describe the interface of called...
    42 KB (4,787 words) - 21:12, 16 June 2024
  • x86 assembly language is the name for the family of assembly languages which provide some level of backward compatibility with CPUs back to the Intel...
    54 KB (6,902 words) - 01:59, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 64-bit computing
    virtual memory addresses. However, not all 64-bit instruction sets support full 64-bit virtual memory addresses; x86-64 and AArch64 for example, support only...
    56 KB (7,152 words) - 14:19, 2 August 2024
  • x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU. In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved...
    41 KB (3,711 words) - 17:53, 25 July 2024
  • (i186, i286, i386, i486, i586/i686) and is referred to as (32-bit) x86 and (64-bit) x86-64 (also known as AMD64). This is the original instruction set. In...
    208 KB (12,327 words) - 18:48, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for CentOS
    CentOS (category X86-64 Linux distributions)
    from RHEL version 2.1AS. Since version 8, CentOS officially supports the x86-64, ARM64, and POWER8 architectures, and releases up to version 6 also supported...
    88 KB (6,194 words) - 00:38, 8 August 2024
  • architectural revision. Later revisions were the first to feature Intel's x86-64 architecture, enhanced branch prediction and trace cache, and eventually...
    51 KB (2,933 words) - 12:54, 6 August 2024
  • execution in Windows IA-32 edition or the WoW64 emulation layer for the x86-64 version has a link to an undocumented _EXCEPTION_REGISTRATION_RECORD list...
    10 KB (961 words) - 05:07, 24 August 2023