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Originally posted by wtbw
This is very different from the version of Windows that Itanium ran on. Even though it is 64-bit, it's a totally different architecture
Itanium is intended for servers IIRC. Intel wouldn't have made a desktop version of that: they wouldn't be able to compete with AMD then. So they basically copied AMD, renamed the extensions EM64T (AMD64 sounds cooler though), and will be using that for desktop processors.