Re:How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?
by davidgay on Sunday February 09, 2020 @12:07PM
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> People sometimes think that the market caused the Alpha to fail. Really, it was Intel. They wanted Itanic to succeed so much that they made a deal with HP to end the Alpha prematurely, even though demand for Alpha systems was high.
This is misleading at best - "The Itanium architecture originated at Hewlett-Packard (HP), and was later jointly developed by HP and Intel." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium)
A more realistic view would see it as a casualty of the DEC->Compaq->HP merger sequence, with HP long committed to Itanium as the successor to its own PA-Risc architecture.
This is misleading at best - "The Itanium architecture originated at Hewlett-Packard (HP), and was later jointly developed by HP and Intel." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium)
A more realistic view would see it as a casualty of the DEC->Compaq->HP merger sequence, with HP long committed to Itanium as the successor to its own PA-Risc architecture.