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The only part of Itanium that annoys me is that it's squatting on the IA-64 abbreviation. IA-16 is 16-bit x86, retroactively. IA-32 is 32-bit x86. Easy-peasy.

by msla 4y ago

The only part of Itanium that annoys me is that it's squatting on the IA-64 abbreviation. IA-16 is 16-bit x86, retroactively. IA-32 is 32-bit x86. Easy-peasy. But IA-64 is this oddball architecture that has no relevance to anyone's life anymore and it breaks the pattern. It wasn't even Intel's design to begin with, it was HP's. Bah.

bcrl 4y ago
But 64 bit x86 wasn't created by Intel, it was created by AMD. It should really be referred to as AMD-64.
- msla 4y ago
  My point is, if Intel had developed x86 into a 64-bit architecture instead of rabbiting off after Itanium, the 64-bit x86 would be IA-64.