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by userbinator 1179 days ago
Plus the lack of a 64bit x86.

If you look at the definitions of various structures and opcodes in x86 you'll notice gaps that would've been ideal for a 64-bit expansion, so I think they had a plan besides IA64, but AMD beat them to it (and IMHO with a far more inelegant extension.)

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  > and IMHO with a far more inelegant extension
what could they have done that would have been better?