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A comment on Betrayed by a bitfield (2012).

Re:Betrayed by a bitfield (2012) by Const-me on Sunday July 03, 2016 @07:08PM (#12028050)
I wonder why people still use Itanium CPUs? And Intel is still producing them, they even going to release the next one, named Kittson?

Hasn’t x86-64 architecture basically won?

Or there’re some specific niches where Itaniums work better for some reason?

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Re:Betrayed by a bitfield (2012) by throwaway2048 on Sunday July 03, 2016 @09:35PM (#12028497)
the niche of "software written/licensed for itanium"
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