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by garaetjjte 1785 days ago
>What sort of architectures (if any) got killed as a direct result of developing IA-64?

Alpha?

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And HP-PA and, later, MIPS (as a mainstream computer). MIPS survives in some routers.
MIPS is very, very close to dead now.

To be fair though, I think its death is more attributable to ARM than Itanium. And RISC-V is killing off anything that remained.

MIPS the brand was bought for cheap from a bankruptcy, and resurrected by its new owner… to be an ARM partner building ARM chips.