[Info-vax] "x86 has only a few years left in the market place"

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/12/2018 9:15 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> seasoned_geek  <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 11:27:18 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>> Nobody likes x86-64.  Not even the folks at Intel, judging by the
>>> number of times they've tried to replace it.
>>
>> INTEL doesn't have the skills to replace it. That would be why they were caught red handed stealing Alpha tech.
> 
> Intel keeps coming out with better architectures... maybe not the iAPX 432,
> but the 8096, i860 and i960 were definitely huge steps ahead of the x86
> architecturally and, at the time they were introduced, in performance.  But
> Intel couldn't sell them.

And then a company called HP convinced them to go with a thing
called Itanium (or what later got the name Itanium) and we
know the end of that story now!

Arne