I think of Itanium as the i860¹ redux. Andy Glew et al had some interesting discussion on comp.sys.arch² about MPX³ as an emasculated descendant of a capability

I think of Itanium as the i860¹ redux. Andy Glew et al had some interesting discussion on comp.sys.arch² about MPX³ as an emasculated descendant of a capability system. ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 ² which this www is too small to contain ³ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX