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The generic term x86 refers to the instruction set of the most commercially successful CPU architecture in the history of personal computing. It is used in processors from Intel, AMD, VIA, and others, and derived from the model numbers of the first few generations of processors, backward compatible with Intel's original 16-bit 8086 CPU, most of which were ending in 86. Since then, many additions and extensions have been added to the x86 instruction set, almost consistently with full backwards...
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