kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

[Mark Stapper]

Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Because people using them, new what they were doing.
>   
And probably didn't care...
> IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for the 
> Itanium?
>   
The one that didn't stick... indeed.
> Yes, also Intel can fail. Intel also failed with their first 32 
> bit design. Wasn't iAPX-32 ist name? Long before the 80386 came 
> up?
>   
As I was an embryo when the 80386 was first produced, I searched for
this one...
Possibally the same thing though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432


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