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The Itanic was built specifically by HP to sink Fujitsu, hitachi, nec, unisys and sgi. So in that sense it was a success.
by lorreyfum 3mo ago
The Itanic was built specifically by HP to sink Fujitsu, hitachi, nec, unisys and sgi. So in that sense it was a success.
- butterisgood 3mo agoTrue. But it’s a technological representation of all that’s wrong with the industry.
- lorreyfum 3mo agoAbsolutely. This monstrosity managed to have all what was wrong with CISC and all of the disadvantages of RISC at a higher price point than anything on the market at the time.
- kstrauser 3mo agoThis was my take on it: https://honeypot.net/2021/07/29/the-itanic-has.html https://honeypot.net/2021/07/29/the-itanic-has.html Key relevant quote: > In 1994, Intel and HP looked around and saw a wide variety of successful server CPU architectures like Alpha, MIPS, SPARC, and POWER. This annoyed them and they decided to make a new CPU that no one would want to use.