> ...I read many engineers in many places saying that it's a bad [idea]... I read an article several years ago from an engineer at...ooh, I think it was DEC or

> ...I read many engineers in many places saying that it's a bad [idea]... I read an article several years ago from an engineer at...ooh, I think it was DEC or IBM. He said that during development of the Itanium, the Intel guys had talked to them and they advised most strongly that Intel drop the project, because they had been down that road and thought it was a dead end.