[Info-vax] VMware

[Grant Taylor]

On 12/12/19 8:17 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> From the current set of Intel docs:
> 
> "IA-32" is the traditional 32-bit i386 architecture.
> 
> "Intel 64" is the 64-bit x86-64 architecture.

*facepalm*

So "I64" could be s shortening of that to be Intel's 64-bit x86.

The missing "A" being critical.

> The title of the arch manuals is:
> 
> "Intel(r) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual"
> 
> "Intel Itanium" is current name the 64-bit Itanium architecture. 
> Prior naming had IA-64 back when Intel thought that Itanium would be 
> the 64-bit system of the future before AMD came along and pounded 
> 64-bit features into the i386 architecture.  That IA-64 and IA64 
> have carried over in various pieces of software and documentation. 
> There was also IPF (Itanium Processor Family) as well.  And then HP 
> made it more confusing with inventing the Integrity branding which 
> at exclusively Itanium at the start but now includes "Intel 64" 
> systems as well.

Tangentially related:  Solaris using "i86pc" in lieu of the more 
industry standard "i386" has caused confusion for me.



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Grant. . . .
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