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by georgemcbay 4584 days ago
IA-32 is a subset of x86, as x86 includes everything from the 8086 up and IA-32 (often AKA i386) is the 32-bit architecture from the 80386 up. But this doesn't really explain why both were listed there, particularly when listed alongside the 386 as a separate listing.