Patch Lady – Patch naming

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Just thought I’d post something that I often see being asked about. When Microsoft releases an update for the 64 bit platform and in the name of the p
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Nitpick: AMD invented the instruction set, not the architecture.

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Another one of those little things that really don’t make much sense, and can confound anyone who’s not accustomed to it.

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Architecture is the instruction set.  Instruction set is the architecture.  AMD64 is an Architecture built on the x86 architecture extending x86 to allow 64 bit memory addressing.  X86 is the instruction set that the AMD64 instruction set was built upon extending x86 to allow 64 bit memory addressing.  Both are true and valid.

Itanium is the failed to catch on Intel 64bit instruction set architecture.

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Patch Lady,

Thank you.

The Universe is vast, and being in it for quite a while already, I still keep coming across all sorts of things I must have been standing right next to all along and failed to notice until the day I bump against them hard enough…

And while we are here, I wonder if you would mind including always a link to your patches’ list in your postings?

For example, these days I would like to know what’s up with the March update for Word, and to find out I would much rather not have to rifle first through several postings to find the one where that link last appeared.

Your work monitoring patches is deeply appreciated, particularly now that MS is giving you the opportunity to stay really busy doing it.

 

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Did you look at the button at the top of the page “Master Patch List?” Is that what you are looking for?

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“… I still keep coming across all sorts of things I must have been standing right next to all along and failed to notice until the day I bump against them hard enough…”

Thanks for the bump.

 

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@ OscarCP

For what it’s worth from Wikipedia:

x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64 and Intel 64)

And in the *Note* section:

Note 1:

Enough to make anyone’s mind spin–smile.

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I’ll break Note 1 down (it’s an easier read without the other Note #’s):

“Intel initially used the names IA-32e and EM64T before finally settling on “Intel 64″ for its implementation. Some in the industry, including Apple, use x86-64 and x86_64, while others, notably Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) and Microsoft, use x64. The BSD family of OSs and several Linux distributions use AMD64, as does Microsoft Windows internally.”

So Intel 64, x86-64, x86_64, x64 and AMD64 all refer to the same thing; when MS refer to AMD64 in their technical notes, they mean the 64-bit version of Windows.

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What is the difference between x64 and IA-64?

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Cascadian

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