[Info-vax] OT: IA-128 ???

[Keith Parris]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> Obviously things changed when AMD invented AMD64
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD64
> which forced Intel to respond in kind with similar 64-bit extensions
> (a true 64-bit extension of the GP regs) called x86-64 and/or IA-64.

I've never heard the term IA-64 refer to anything but Itanium. Intel 
called their version of the x86-64 extensions EM64T. Lately I see the 
term "Intel 64 Architecture" referring to Intel's flavor of x86-64, with 
the IA-32 term retained for x86-32.