[Info-vax] OT: Itanic time capsule

[Neil Rieck]

I just stumbled across this 2002 news item which was too cool to keep
to myself.

http://www.osnews.com/story/636/A_Titanic_Story_-_The_History_of_the_Itanium

quote: "This will end up being one of the world's worst investments,
I'm afraid," - David House, former Intel chief of corporate strategy
said in the early 1990s. I've been fasinated by microprocessors for
years and have been following the Merced debacle since back in 1994
when HP and Intel announced they were getting together to make some
amazing new technology.

NSR

comment: now that Intel has got the damned thing working you've really
got to wonder how much money was thrown at this product (and would it
have been better to stick with RISC)