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Similarly, NT allegedly invested a lot into supporting the even later (and more goofily named) Itanium [1] (IA-64) architecture. In general, Intel's history of
by WorldMaker 4y ago
Similarly, NT allegedly invested a lot into supporting the even later (and more goofily named) Itanium [1] (IA-64) architecture.
In general, Intel's history of failed architectures is almost more interesting than its history of winning architectures.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64
- kjs3 4y agoThe full Intel i960 implementation (i960MX & i960MC variants) was particularly interesting, supporting a capabilities based arch and a lot of built in fault tolerance features. Unfortunately, it got squeezed by the BiiN project going nowwhere in the end, and both the i386 & i860 competing for mindshare within Intel. In the end, they stripped out most/all of the nifty stuff and made a lot of money from i960 as a high-end but pedestrian embedded processor.