[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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