And how can one get their hands on an Itanium machine? It's a dead architecture in less than two weeks, and for the last decade the things have been almost excl

And how can one get their hands on an Itanium machine? It's a dead architecture in less than two weeks, and for the last decade the things have been almost exclusively enterprise machines; not something the hobbyist (or even the academic!) is likely to get access to. Do you have an HP zx6000 lying around, perchance? Itanium failed early; it had many more problems than compilers. And if we don't have a replacement, we'll never get those compilers from anyone but the most obsessed.