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by logbiscuitswave
961 days ago
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In the mid 2000s I had to test a product I was working on with all architectures supported by Windows, which of course included ia64. We had one engineering sample HP ia64 machine in the test lab (I think it was a zx2000 but I could be mistaken). It was this giant, noisy, hulking boat anchor full tower that weighed some over 50 lbs and had a 650W power supply. I had to find a Server 2003 ia64 CD to install the OS (and work through the awful UEFI CLI incantations required to get the damn thing to boot). Once installed I was always struck by just how incredibly slow the machine was. It was just such a drag to use. Once we no longer needed to support ia64 I was thrilled that I’d never need to use that thing again. Good riddance. |
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