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> I still wonder why neither qemu nor any other (open-source) emulator ever tackled Itanium emulation. There is actually some work on adding ia64 emulation sup
by cbmuser 4y ago
> I still wonder why neither qemu nor any other (open-source) emulator ever tackled Itanium emulation.
There is actually some work on adding ia64 emulation support to qemu, see:
> https://github.com/XVilka/qemu-ia64 https://github.com/XVilka/qemu-ia64
- IntelMiner 4y agoThere is something deeply amusing about Itanium setting out to be Intel's new flagship 64-bit architecture before sinking under its own weight into niche use by effectively just HP Ten rendered irrelevant by their own competitor, AMD releasing "AMD64" (x86_64) a few years later Now fast forward 20~ years into the future and we're building emulators for Intel's dead 64-bit platform to run atop effectively AMD's 64-bit answer to it
- nullc 4y agoItanium is responsible for the best graph on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#/media/File:Itanium_Sales_Forecasts_edit.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#/media/File:Itanium_Sa...