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

[John Reagan]

On Sunday, May 13, 2018 at 10:41:29 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/12/2018 9:35 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> > =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <a> wrote:
> >> On 5/12/2018 9:15 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >>> seasoned_geek  < 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

yes

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