[Info-vax] OpenVMS I64 on IA-64, and x86-64 nomenclature history (was: Re: VMware)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-12-12 18:45:39 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> 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.

That particular article has been wrong for a while.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54091782/application-manifest-for-64-bit-applications 


Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition requires an Itanium, and I suspect 
that was the source of the confusion in that section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Windows_XP_64-Bit_Edition

If the folks do try that IA64 as a target for x86-64, they almost 
certainly won't get the expected results.


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