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was there any advantage or special use case for running an itanium windows workstation instead of x86 back then?
by t1234s 2mo ago
was there any advantage or special use case for running an itanium windows workstation instead of x86 back then?
- twoodfin 2mo agoMore than 3GB of application memory space and more than 4GB overall (including the NT kernel). At that time, this was starting to become a major issue at the high end of servers and workstations.
- kstrauser 2mo agoAnd then AMD64 came along and we immediately moved to 8GB servers, taking away the only real Itanium advantage.
- pjmlp 2mo agoYeah, in an alternative timeline AMD would not had the opportunity to come up with AMD64, and we had to suck up Itanium no matter what, and maybe they would be improved.