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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
by chasil 4y ago
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.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoProfessor Itanium shouldn't have messed with compound X.
- rbanffy 4y ago> 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.
- crest 4y agoIntel managed to kill off two competing architectures with Itanium only to get taken out by AMD in turn. Karma is a bitch.