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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I never used Itanium, but I'm guessing that the Alpha workstations also ran x86 code faster than the Itaniums. fx!32 was one of DEC's marvels that they completely forgot to market.

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    Yeah, but x86 was relatively cheap. Alpha and Itanium were in a similar price range.

    At that time Alpha belonged to Compaq - and they stopped Alpha development (and canned quite a few good designs which were pretty much ready to go), expecting they'll be able to replace it with Itanium.

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