[Info-vax] Itanium in the news (NOT)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 28-12-2009 06:47, John Wallace wrote:
> On Dec 22, 10:43 pm, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca>  wrote:
>> Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>>> buy Itanium systems to run OpenVMS or Unix, full stop. And I'm very
>>> surprised to hear that the windows kit for Itanium hasn't met the same
>>> fate yet.
>>
>> Microsoft has close ties with Intel. So there may have been some
>> negotations which resulted in Intel adding MS needed features in the
>> 8086  in exchange for MS providing token support for that IA64 thing.
>>
>> Remember that only a subset of MS software runs on IA64.
>
> JF, please do try not to call industry standard 64bit architectures
> "8086". The architecture which has wiped the floor with Intel's IA64
> should more respectfully be called AMD64. AMD invented it (at least
> the intersting bits that make it 64bit enterprise-ready), and a very
> reluctant Intel were eventually forced to follow, leaving Itanium's
> sole selling point (today) the niche market of ultra large memory
> single system image SMP systems. Or maybe Itanium is interesting
> because of HP-UX or NonStop or VMS. But Itanium itself isn't
> interesting to many people, especially not as an x86 follow on of any
> kind. AMD64 is that architecture.

The commonly used term is x86-64.

Arne