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I think Itanium was pretty successful in few important, though entirely non-techincal, ways: it got HPaq to kill and PA-RISC and SGI to stop developing MIPS.
by meepmorp 3y ago
I think Itanium was pretty successful in few important, though entirely non-techincal, ways: it got HPaq to kill and PA-RISC and SGI to stop developing MIPS.
- lproven 3y agoAnd, most importantly of all, Compaq to give Alpha to Intel, effectively killing it. Alpha was the strongest rival to all other microprocessors: quicker than Arm, x86, POWER, SPARC, MIPS, everything. So it had to die. :'(