[Info-vax] Itanium and the NY antitrust suit against Intel

[Michael Kraemer]

Neil Rieck schrieb:

> Sorry for the second post but I forgot to add something about Itanium.
> I don't want to get into conspiracy theories but the Extremetech
> article makes me wonder what kind of backroom deals were made between
> Intel and Compaq-HP to kill Alpha and PA-RISC.

As far as PA was concerned: no backroom deal here.
PA's fate was sealed with the HP-intel pact as of 1994,
when it was publicly stated that Itanic should replace
PA.

> Remember that HP
> engineers didn't want to kill PA-RISC because of competition from
> other processors, including Alpha. 

I don't think it was the engineer's decision.
Itanic wasn't ready, so a few more iterations of
PA were necessary to keep up HP's Unix business.