[Info-vax] HPE Integrity emulator

[John Dallman]

In article <mailman.2.1712434050.27336.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
kemain.nospam at gmail.com (Kerry Main c.o.v.) wrote:

> Since IA64 was really in its infancy when Intel acquired Alpha 
> (rather was forced to acquire Alpha due to legal issues), Intel 
> could have decided to drop IA64 and go full speed with next gen 
> Alpha development. But, from what I heard, there was a lot of 
> "not invented here" culture in Intel, so Alpha dev was pushed 
> to the side.  

There was far too much ego-driven decision-making at Intel in those days.
I made a joking suggestion to them in late 2002 or early 2003 that they
put IA-64 aside, and introduce "Itanium Pro," otherwise known as the next
generation of Alpha to replace it. The Intel engineer I made the
suggestion to was ex-DEC and thought this was funny, but did not fancy
passing the idea along. 

> And then IA64 was something like 6 or 7 years late to the market, 
> which, by this time, x86-64 was out and about, so IA64 never 
> really recovered ..

Itanium shipped in June 2001. AMD Opteron shipped in April 2003. Itanium
was out first, but the lead didn't allow it to get established. 

John