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X86 Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

Integrated Circuit Terminology
X86
a type of microprocessor which can execute the X86 instruction set developed by Intel in the early seventies.


X86 Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

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x86

x86
a common abbreviation for any of the intel 80x86 range, or compatibles, e.g. from cyrix or amd.


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 x86 processor socket 


X86 Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

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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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