x86-64 was first introduced in 2003
Posted Apr 17, 2026 9:27 UTC (Fri) by geert (subscriber, #98403)In reply to: Nice to see an update by Vorpal
Parent article: No kidding: Gentoo GNU/Hurd
> x86-64 was first introduced in 2003 (announced in 1999 though apparently), so Hurd is over 2 decades late on this.
Yeah, Intel was late to the party ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_dat...