[Info-vax] Itanium in the news (NOT)

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Dec 22, 1:08 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Itanium never took off. It is left now as an HP chip
>> developped/manufactured under contract by Intel. Tukwila will come out
>> sometime next year, but the pieces have now been set for the 8086 to
>> take over. Quickpath, multicore, shared caches between cores. It's got
>> what it takes now to scale up and is first to market.
>>
> 
> How many times have we heard that Tukwila will come out in the next
> year? The second coming of JC may happen before Tukwilia.
> 
> Oh and BTW, Merry Christmas to you all.
> 
> NSR

I think I first encountered that code name almost four years ago! 
Anyone who's been holding his breath must be purple in the face by now.