On 06/06/2011 07:14 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 06.06.2011 19:40, schrieb Orchid XP v8:
>
>> I keep hoping that some day somebody will come up with a chip design
>> that runs crappy old 16-bit MS-DOS stuff under software emulation, but
>> runs real Big Boy software that people might give a damn about on a
>> platform with a modern, coherant design. But apparently I'm just
>> dreaming...
>
> That's what Intel tried with the Itanium.
>
> "I'm making a note here: Huge Success."

As far as I can tell, the trouble with Itanium is that it had very, very 
poor performance. This is not much incentive to switch.

(Which is surprising really, because on paper it looks like a really 
good design...)

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