“fantasy”? I lived it and I’m likely at least a decade or more younger than you if you did too.

Yes, I read a/the hardcover book on 432 and was really impressed. There was a slow build for that architecture because it was so different than x86.

Itanium is as I said and the downvote, plus raising the competing architecture that crushed DEC into oblivion once Carly “That Face” Fiorina bought Compaq/DEC and you guys finally got your paws on it and your insult (“fantasy”) tells me where you are coming from. I only hope you are retired (either in Microsoft or on Social Security )

The iAPX432 was released in 1981 but by 1984 Intel had already given up on it, morphing it into the Intel 960. That was a long time before the DEC Alpha came out. The Alpha had already been killed in practice by the time the Itanium project actually started: 1998.

I never said Alpha had something to do with 432. (If anything, it had more to do with the VAX and DG MV/8000.) It's demise (and the 960) had something to do with Alpha though.

And uhgain...Itanium was the legit successor to Alpha, Pentium Pro/II/III/IV were the illegit knock-offs that made that horrific turn of events possible.