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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-05-14 02:41:27 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:

> On 5/12/2018 9:35 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 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....

This is probably a conflation between the Intel VLIW work that produced 
the i860 architecture in 1989, and the slightly later work that became 
known as Itanium.

Then-HP started work on a potential PA-RISC replacement in 1989 and on 
what later became known as EPIC, and which became Intel Itanium.

Wouldn't surprise me to learn that some parts of what Intel learned 
from their i860 VLIW work was reused with EPIC and Itanium, but what 
became Intel Itanium arose from then-HP.

http://hpl.hp.com/news/2001/apr-jun/itanium.html

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