C - Re: Small C "Puzzle"

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Re: Small C "Puzzle"

Randy Howard

2004-08-31, 3:55 pm

In article <41319d19$0$9528$626a14ce@news.free.fr>, honeypot@kma.eu.org says...
> Mike Wahler wrote:
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> AFAIK, IA stands for Intel Architecture.
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> Thus IA-32 is Intel's 32-bit ISA, i.e. x86, and IA-64 is Intel's
> 64-bit ISA, i.e. the Itanium Processor Family ISA.

And just to make it more confusing, Intel has started offering 64-bit
CPUs which effectively are clones of the AMD Opteron (apart from a
single instruction IIRC) which are collectively referred to as x86-64.
They (Intel) keep changing the marketing name, I think the latest
incantation is "EM64t".

Itanium != Opteron by any stretch of the imagination, although they
are both 64-bit processors.

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