[Info-vax] Intel proposal to simplify x86-64

[John Dallman]

In article <8c1ef3a0-de0a-4126-9024-99237841b087n at googlegroups.com>,
n.rieck at bell.net (Neil Rieck) wrote:

> Agreed. It has been a long time since I developed commercial 
> compilable applications for Windows but I seem to recall that 
> Windows developer docs referred to running 8-bit code on a 16-bit 
> OS (or running 16-bit code on a 32-bit OS) as "thunking" (I have no 
> idea why)

There's a decent explanation at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk>.
Scroll down to "Interoperability" for their use in bridging between
different address sizes. 

John