{"id":1171,"date":"2015-11-10T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2015-11-10T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:09:54","slug":"the-story-of-amd64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1171\/the-story-of-amd64","title":{"rendered":"The Story of  AMD64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd64_intro.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\n(An interpreted narrative told through real AMD stock photos)<\/p>\n<p><small>10 DAYS OF VINTAGE: Day 9<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_0.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nOnce upon a time, three lonely scientists devised a chip.  It would be the ultimate computing device.  They called it AMD64.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_2.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nUpon its completion, the scientists rejoiced, coddling the chip like it was their own child.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_4.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nAs they contemplated its wonder, one of them held AMD64 in direct sunlight.  It reflected the sun into his eyes, blinding him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_5.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nThis angered the scientist, and he hurled the chip outward at such speed that it escaped Earth&#8217;s gravitational pull.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_7.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nIt began to tumble toward the sun, hopeless and lost.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_11.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nJust then, a large black monolith appeared and sucked the chip inside.  Time froze, and reality curved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_8.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nWithin the monolith, AMD64 saw its past, present, and future flow before it, merged into one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_9.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nIts delight turned to horror as the memories melted into a molten pit of pulsating fire, engulfing the chip.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_1.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nSuddenly it found itself alone, in silence, on a glassy white plane.  &#8220;Hello?&#8221; said AMD64.  Its voice didn&#8217;t echo; it heard nothing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_10.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nAMD64 felt the ground shift beneath its feet and it began sliding, down, down across an infinite silicon plane at incredible speeds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_5.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nIt became airborne, launched once again: this time, toward Earth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_7.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nAs it re-entered the atmosphere, it began to tumble, slowing its descent.  It fell through the ceiling of a factory where it was caught by a teenage boy. &#8220;Got ya, little guy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/amd64\/amd_3.jpg\" alt=\"The Story of AMD64 Opteron\" width=\"450\" class=\"shadow centered\" \/><br \/>\nThe boy stacked the chip on a pile of others.  AMD64 looked around and noticed that the other chips looked just like him.  &#8220;This is my family,&#8221; he cried in joy.  &#8220;I must be home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(An interpreted narrative told through real AMD stock photos) 10 DAYS OF VINTAGE: Day 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,10],"tags":[1261,1262,1264,1260,220,626,1265,1263,1259],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-computers","tag-amd","tag-amd64","tag-cpus","tag-fiction","tag-humor","tag-monolith","tag-scientists","tag-stock-photos","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}