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by makapuf 2707 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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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.