The irony being that Itanium is basically a SPARC64 on steroids; both wide, both used huge register windows, and both were in order. the only difference being t

The irony being that Itanium is basically a SPARC64 on steroids; both wide, both used huge register windows, and both were in order. the only difference being that Itanium exposed a lot of the superscalar bits to the programmer. I still have no clue why an HP shop would be using Solaris boxes, alas...