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it's a piece of crap, but my 12 year old itanium box has 8 cores, sas controller, actual pcie ports, 10gb ethernet, and suppports up to 384GB of ram unlike ras
by Palomides 3y ago
it's a piece of crap, but my 12 year old itanium box has 8 cores, sas controller, actual pcie ports, 10gb ethernet, and suppports up to 384GB of ram
unlike raspberry pi 5
say what you will about power efficiency and better options existing, but simply looking at the hardware, these are still capable machines
- justin66 3y agoSo instead of being replaced by a an embedded SBC, they could be replaced by... an inexpensive modern PC?
- Palomides 3y agomy inexpensive modern pc could also be replaced by a slightly newer inexpensive modern pc, so what? the point at which a machine becomes unusably obsolete is a judgement call, and I only consider itanium obsolete because every OS has basically given up on it, not because of the hardware
- justin66 3y agoThat's fair. I've got some fully capable 32-bit x86 hardware that doesn't get the support which, it seems to me, it completely deserves. But like the enterprises that are almost fully transitioned away from Itanium, it's not like I'm actually willing to pay anyone to do the work.
- samus 3y agoIt is exactly because of the hardware: Itaniums are pretty much unobtainable these days. This makes supporting software for these machines difficult and very expensive. This is the natural consequence of the manufacturer also having obsoleted it. Even quite outdated PC is trivial to obtain and support in comparison. Also for Amigas and C64s software maintenance is vastly easier since there are practical emulators.
- Palomides 3y agovery true, I think if qemu or something had itanium emulation we might have seen longer community support