Yes
> Or worse, a 286 app runs on IA64...
Yes
> How about a 186...
Yes
Although at a certain point you can switch to software emulation because
you'll trivially outperform the "real" hardware.
Also you'll notice one of the big wins about AMD x86-64 is running
x86-32 apps well.
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