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by seefriek 4575 days ago
Err...IA-64 is the Itanium instruction set. You mean EM64T, no?
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Wikipedia says "Intel 64" is the new official name, but yeah, IA-64 looks wrong. Sorry. IA-64 feels like it should be the 64-bit-ified IA-32, but no...

Hard problems in CS: Naming things.

You're actually right...IA-64 was suppose to be the 64-bit Intel instruction set, right up until AMD dropped the AMD64 bomb and the market went "backward compatible...got to get me some of that" and Intel went scrambling for Plan B.