Subject Re: [firebird-support] Latest stable release
Author Milan Babuskov
Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> AMD64 is also compatible with Intel. It is simply called AMD64 because AMD was the first to introduce a 64 bit x86 instructionset. This instructionset is also used by Intel due to an IP-'sharing' between AMD and Intel.
>
> BTW: Might be worthwhile to rename AMD64 to x64 (ex like Sun has done) to prevent this kind of confusion.

Agreed. I remember that in the beginning I compiled FB on my Intel
Core2Duo myself because I though this official binary would only work on
AMD CPUs.

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Milan Babuskov

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