Itanium naming question: Document Titles

[Donald B. Larson]

Jim:
	I refer you to http://www.servers.hp.com/ia-64/
where HP and Intel have posted an announcement regarding the
nomenclature change.
						Don Larson

Jim Dehnert wrote:
> 
> "Donald B. Larson" wrote:
> >
> > Hi:
> >         Will the CXX ABI committee be conforming, soon, to the
> > "branding" decisions for Itanium?   Apparently
> > Intel wants references to "IA-64" replaced with "Itanium"
> > in public discussions of the platform.  For instance they
> > want
> > "IA-64 applications" replaced with "Itanium-based applications"
> > and "IA-64 OS" replaced with "Itanium(tm)-based OS"
> >
> > The documents at http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi.html still
> > have IA-64 in their titles.  Can the CXX ABI committee work on
> > re-naming the documents as quickly as possible so that references
> > to the documents in product documentation can be changed, as well?
> 
> Is this a change?  Last I heard, IA-64 was the preferred architecture
> name, and Itanium the specific processor name.  The ABI is intended
> to apply to the architecture, not just one processor.  I think before
> anything is changed, we need a clearer statement of Intel's (modified?)
> intent.
> 
> Jim
> --
> -           Jim Dehnert         dehnert at transmeta.com
>             (408)919-6984       dehnertj at acm.org

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					Don Larson   
					Internet and IA_64 Foundation Lab
					Hewlett Packard   Cupertino, CA