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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by userbinator on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:45PM (#35415588)
Plus the lack of a 64bit x86.

If you look at the definitions of various structures and opcodes in x86 you'll notice gaps that would've been ideal for a 64-bit expansion, so I think they had a plan besides IA64, but AMD beat them to it (and IMHO with a far more inelegant extension.)

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Re:iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure by andrekandre on Sunday April 02, 2023 @10:44PM (#35417918) 

  > and IMHO with a far more inelegant extension
what could they have done that would have been better?
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