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by pjmlp 2710 days ago
Itaninum only lost because Intel did the mistake to allow AMD to design x86 chips.
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makapuf 2710 days ago
That would mean itanium could have won only by a monopoly and that with open competition, backwards compatibility won.
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pjmlp 2709 days ago
Itaninum also had an emulation mode, while not perfect, they could eventually improved it.

Backwards compatible didn't matter in the mobile world, or for those screaming for ARM laptops.

Sometimes we can't just have nice things.

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