Re: Did any one post this Oracle link already?

Dirk Munk schrieb:

The article does not say that DEC would use the IA64 to replace Alpha.

Of course DEC didn't say that explicitly (they still had ongoing
business), but it was the only logical outcome.
Considering that their VMS/DUNIX sales numbers already lagged
way behind the competition,
it wouldn't have made much sense to split that further.

Remember the Itanium was designed to replace the x86!

It was meant to replace everything, not just the x86.

Also remember there was an Alpha roadmap up to EV12, and Alpha engineers were touring universities etc. to explain how EV9 would be designed.

So what, roadmaps going farther than one or two generations aren't
worth the paper they're written on.
What was the current version in 1997, EV56?
So already EV9 was rather speculative and EV12 (six future generations)
appears to be sheer science fiction.
It costs (almost) nothing to talk about design,
so it doesn't mean much.

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