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dom0
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Microchips That Shook the World
The Itanium is interesting, because it somehow managed to kill most high-end RISC architectures (MIPS, HPPA, Alpha) without even being on the market. At some point even Sun wanted to drop SPARC for Itanium.
Gibbon1
on June 26, 2017
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I remember reading drips and drabs about the Itanium and wondering how anyone who wasn't a super genius(tm) was supposed to use the thing.
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