But as i consider, it was ahead of it's time.
although I've never used the Itanium. I agree it was ahead of it's
time. nothing when it was released could run on it (for the most
part). which is why athlon64 made it big it was backwards compatable.
if OS's ever go to 64-bit it may come back. I'
hi,
Jonathan Smith wrote:
> > which was
> > intel's horrid first attempt at a 64-bit successor to x86.
Well, sorry, but what you call a "horrid" first attempt is the joined
effort of PARISC developers at HP and X86 developers at Intel, both with
a heritage of over 20 years in CPU design.
I think
