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

[Dave Froble]

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.

Oh, yes, it was HP who came up with the idea, and I'm not sure why Intel 
jumped on the idea.  Probably the concept of dominating the market with 
no competition.  But it started with HP.