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X86 architecture
The generic term x86 refers to the "CISC" type instruction set of the most commercially successful CPU architecture in the history of personal computing, used in processors from IntelAMDVIA, and others. It derived from the model numbers of the first few generations of CPUsbackward compatible with Intel's original 16-bit 8086 of 1978, most of which were ending in "86".

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