[Info-vax] VMware

[Bob Gezelter]

On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 8:23:03 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-12-11, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > But you mentioned IA64 - which is generally taken to mean legacy 
> > Itanic-family stuff. Or maybe something got misread.
> >
> 
> IA64 is also used in some places to mean the x86-64 architecture.
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

Simon,

The official Intel nomenclature is that IA-64 is Itanium. IA-32 is the architecture of the x86 family processors. The 64 bit extensions are just that, 64-bit extensions.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com