Meaning of x86 | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of a family of instruction set architectures based on that used by the Intel 8086 microprocessor.
2. Specifically, the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.
3. Specifically, the original, 16-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.
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Examples

“The x86 version of Windows 7 only supports a maximum of 4 GiB of RAM; 64-bit Windows can support a lot more.”

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