2026-10-18 07:06 UTC
@linear@nya.social getting kinda busy but it's fineeee
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@linear@nya.social 2026-10-18 07:13
@mir@ice.ch3.st NetBSD calls it amd64, but good enough! trivia: NetBSD supported AMD's 64-bit x86 architecture (that Intel later adopted) before basically any other major operating system, running on the simulator before real hardware was even available! support in Linux, the other BSDs, and Windows, did not follow for years. you can read more about it in the paper "Porting NetBSD to the AMD x86-64: a case study in OS portability" by Frank van der Linden: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/bsdcon02/full_papers/linden/linden.pdf