[Info-vax] VMware

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-12-12, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/2019 11:13 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> On 12/12/19 6:22 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> IA64 is also used in some places to mean the x86-64 architecture.
>>
>> Where are you seeing that?
>>

In architecture specific parts of some open source trees. Unfortunately,
I cannot remember which ones.

I've just had a quick look around for documentation references which
refer to x86-64 as IA64 and I found this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/deployment/assemblyidentity-element-clickonce-deployment?view=vs-2019

Check out the processorArchitecture attribute. The wording of that section
makes it _very_ clear that describing x86-64 as IA64 is deliberate in this
case and is not an accident.

When you have someone who has never used Itanium but uses Visual Studio
every day, it comes as no surprise they might start referring to x86-64
as IA64 when they see things like that.

>
> Else, how did we get such names 
> as "hard drive"?

Hard drive came about because what came before it was the floppy drive.

Simon.

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