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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/12/2018 9:35 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 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!
> 
> No, you can't blame HP for that, it was very much an idea that came
> from Intel in-house.  SGI was on the line long before HP was.

I have always been of the impression that Itanium was something
HP came up with and came to Intel with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Development:_1989%E2%80%932000

seems to believe the same.

Arne