[Info-vax] VMware

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Dec 12 20:20:07 EST 2019


On 12/12/2019 8:22 AM, 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.

It should not.

IA-64 is Itanium.

AMD64, EM64T, IA-32e and Intel 64 all are or has been widely used
names for x86-64.

(and the IA-32e name is really misleading!)

But nobody should use IA-64 for it.

Arne




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