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matjayesterday at 6:22 PM0 repliesview on HN

I wouldn't say so, because it was a co-processor: e.g., it depended on the 8086 to even generate addresses for memory operations.

I think the IBM 7030 Stretch CPU (from 1964) would be a likely contender for being one of the first 64-bit CPUs.