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"As a matter of fact, DEC had devised a more solid transition plan from their VAX CISC to the Alpha RISC. But they failed and DEC closed down."
The Alpha chip was/is a marvel. DEC TOTALLY messed up on its intro! They said that Alpha was the future, but gave companies NO upgrade path - Buy the new Alpha AND recompile your software and voila, you can upgrade. DEC was also duped by its competitors when it when with OSF1 and mach. EVERYONE ELSE said they would go that way - and no one else did. Ultrix/MIPS to OSF1/Alpha was NOT an upgrade, but a completely separate path - so most companies said, "Gee, the amount of work to port to OSF1/Alpha is the same as to port to Solaris/Sparc or HPUX/PARISC - so why go with DEC?". THIS is what killed DEC and by association, the Alpha.
"Intel needs to design a middle-ground processor to cover the wide semantic gap between IA32 and IA64."
Umm, the Itanium HAS an IA32 "core". It uses the IA64 registers and such to accomplish the computation - but it DOES execute IA32 instructions. Other than this one feature, the Itanium is a "stripped down" PA-RISC chip. - Posted by: Roger Ramjet Posted on: 04/01/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
The Itanic hasn't sunk yet
Roger Ramjet | 03/31/05
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But it's on fire, down by the bow, and listing 20 degrees to starboard. (nt
Letophoro | 03/31/05
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More like On its way to pick up passengers, its stuck on a sandbar,
Roger Ramjet | 03/31/05
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Here's some reality on Itanium for a change
Dodi_z | 03/31/05
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So the link suggests Itanium lacks performance
dwjunix | 03/31/05
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Hmmm...wrong math and conclusion
Dodi_z | 03/31/05
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Misunderstood your point
dwjunix | 04/01/05
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That WOULD be the case
michael-t | 03/31/05
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Middle ground
Roger Ramjet | 04/01/05
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NOT a good day for Intel servers
gfeier | 03/31/05
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Cost savings
Roger Ramjet | 03/31/05
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Which Intel Servers
TedB_z | 03/31/05
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Hmmm
michael-t | 03/31/05
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Market size
TedB_z | 03/31/05
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Market adoption
TedB_z | 03/31/05
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The sad reality is that
michael-t | 03/31/05
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Think about it!!!!
mabricen | 04/01/05
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