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Originally Posted by schneidz
i guess i object that the new name didnt come about til itaniums were being sold (20 years after they were originally introduced) so i think that the historical name (8086 -> 386/686) is more apt in describing the arch (32-bit itaniums dont exist).
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To be more precise, before Intel invented the Itanium architecture (and called it IA-64) the already used the IA nomenclature, but they called their 32 bit design (i386 and later) simply IA (without the -32 extension), just because they didn't need to differentiate it from other architectures, in the same way as we nowadays say Pentium I when we mean the original Pentium, although they officially never had that name extension.
