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| | X86 assembly language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | x86 assembly language is the assembly language for Intel's x86 class of processors, that is, the 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386 and 80486, including the Pentium processors (because numbers cannot be trademarked according to intellectual property laws, Intel changed the name of their later processors to Pentium, essentially the 80586 and above). |
 | | The use of the "x" in the name is meant in the same vein as a wildcard character - Intel intended extensive backward compatibility in their processors. |
 | | Intel is not the sole manufacturer of x86 chips; AMD has also made some x86-compatible processors named K5, K6, K6-2, K6-III, Athlon (K7), Duron, and quite recently, AMD64. |
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