Yeah, thats correct. The some (most?) of the first series (merced) of itaniums had hardware to help accelerate the emulation of x86 instructions. I don't know a

Yeah, thats correct. The some (most?) of the first series (merced) of itaniums had hardware to help accelerate the emulation of x86 instructions. I don't know about the later iterations of it though as I've only run OpenVMS on the later ones and not Windows.