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Re:Linux Looks to Retire Itanium/IA64 Support by chasil on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:13PM (#34807083)
AMD64 was a shark that ended the Itanic, as efficiently as the Itanic ended Alpha and PA RISC (if not moreso).

When the Pentium 4 adopted AMD's instruction set after Microsoft's refusal to support a new Intel 64-bit ISA, the customer base evaporated.

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Re:Linux Looks to Retire Itanium/IA64 Support by TEP_Kim_Il_Sung on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:26PM (#34808315)
Professor Itanium shouldn't have messed with compound X.
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Re:Linux Looks to Retire Itanium/IA64 Support by rbanffy on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:01PM (#34810503)
> after Microsoft's refusal to support a new Intel 64-bit ISA

Back then, having Microsoft’s blessing could make or break an ISA. I can’t shake the feeling Itanium was being sold to the wrong crowd.

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Re:Linux Looks to Retire Itanium/IA64 Support by crest on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:07AM (#34818154)
Intel managed to kill off two competing architectures with Itanium only to get taken out by AMD in turn. Karma is a bitch.
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