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> i think Itanium is worthy of discussion in this era too Itanium was a massive technical failure but a massiver business success. Intel spent a gigabuck and
by bsder 1y ago
> i think Itanium is worthy of discussion in this era too
Itanium was a massive technical failure but a massiver business success.
Intel spent a gigabuck and drove every single non-x86 competitor out of the server business with the exception of IBM.
- icedchai 1y agoI remember the plethora of Unix workstations and servers in the 90's: Sun, HP, SGI, DEC, IBM. I'm skeptical Itanium killed them. It was software: plain old x86 and Linux killed them.
- arp242 1y agoIn addition, Apple probably took some of the Unix workstation market. In the 90s everyone was using SGI for graphics stuff, but ten years later that had shifted quite a bit to Apple and OS X.