Thread: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0) for Solaris Operating System (x86-64)
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Old 02-25-2008, 04:23 AM
John D Groenveld
 
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Default Re: Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0) for Solaris Operating System (x86-64)
In article <pan.2006.03.30.03.33.27.609190@sbcglobal.net>,
Mladen Gogala <gogala@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>Is that AMD or Itanic?

Microsoft, AMD and Sun's (and Intel) marketing wonks have agreed that
x64 means AMD64 and EM64T while IA64 means Itanium/Merced.

Not sure who coined x86-64, but I'm sure Google will provide a good
guess.

John
groenveld@acm.org
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