Re: Portents of Itanium death

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_istop.com)
Date: 06/09/03 

Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 13:16:16 -0400

Fred Kleinsorge wrote:
> Itanium isn't "targeted EOL", and compatability with IA32 has no real
> bearing on the VMS discussion.

Yes it does, because of the reasons your bosses used to justify the Alpha
murder and moving to that IA64 thing.

Your bosses used keywords such as "commodity", "mass market" and "low cost" to
justify moving to IA64 versus Alpha.

The problem is that IA64 has so far achieved none of the qualities that Carly
and Curly had promised and there is nothing on the horizon showing such things happening.

It is exactly because IA64 is not compatible with wintel platform that IA64
will remain a low volume, proprietary and expensive chip, especially if/when
Intel is forced to release a 64 bit version of the 8086.

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