> Alpha, SPARC, and POWER all lost the high-end market (their only market) to Intel at a time when Intel was inferior What's interesting is that the industry w

> Alpha, SPARC, and POWER all lost the high-end market (their only market) to Intel at a time when Intel was inferior What's interesting is that the industry was so sure that Itanium / Windows NT was going to crush everything that many of them just gave up. Compaq and Silicon Graphics specifically tired to switch to Itainium, which was years late and never a huge success. They probably could have gotten another generation or two in. Might have saved SGI.