[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:46:41 -0700, John Wallace wrote:

> x86 was "strictly 32 bit" too, according to Intel not all that long ago.
> And then when AMD64 came out, Intel had to stop saying x86 was "strictly
> 32 bit", and had to follow AMD's lead instead, leaving Intel's proposed
> "industry standard 64bit" IA64 in the long grass while AMD64 (and its
> Intel clone) takes over the world.

It still faintly amuses me that where 32 bit and 64 bit downloads of the 
same software are available, the 64 bit version has AMD64 in the name.

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Paul Sture