[Info-vax] VMware

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/12/2019 7:49 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 12/12/19 11:19 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
>> On 12/12/19 9:24 AM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>> Not necessarily.
>> …
>>> I suspect there are other places where "I64" is used on an IA64 system.
>>
>> *FACEPALM*
> 
> "OpenVMS I64" as an abbreviation for "OpenVMS Industry Standard 64" is
> the official marketing name for VMS on Itanium and always has been.  I
> don't see the reason for the facepalm as the only people who thought it
> meant something else weren't paying attention to what Intel and HP/HPE
> were doing.

It is also used in file names in installation kits.

> The name of the hardware architecture, on the other hand has always been
> IA64, and that is reflected in various places, such as:
> 
> $ write sys$output f$getsyi("arch_name")
> IA64
> $ write sys$output f$getsyi("NODE_HWTYPE")
> IA64

Some name conversion will be needed.

Itanium -> x86-64

seems very natural to me.

I64 -> ?
IA64 -> ?

It may be considered heretic but I think X64 would be fine.

3 letters, no special characters and thanks to Microsoft most
people will understand what it means.

Arne