Post A9njuJyH99oSZ5vyam by ethicsperoxide@oldbytes.space
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 (DIR) Post #A9mh84LgZCSpfdiMKW by tek@freeradical.zone
       2021-07-29T15:01:03Z
       
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       The Itanic Has Sunk https://honeypot.net/post/the-itanic-has-sunk/By today, July 29, 2021, Intel has shipped the last of its Itanium processors, the last holdout of a rough decade of their history. You'd be forgiven for not having heard of this unusual CPU as they carved a niche of a few supercomputers in the early 2000s and some legacy mainframe holdouts.In 1994, Intel and HP looked around and saw a wide variety of successful server CPU architectures like Alpha, MIPS, SPARC, [...]
       
 (DIR) Post #A9mtOpBbORCj18koXA by sleepychris@freeradical.zone
       2021-07-29T17:18:33Z
       
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       @tek we were considering itanium boxes at WMS (née Williams, of pinball and robotron fame) in 2004. Ends up we could have bought 4 beefy DL580s for the cost AND have our enterprise stuff running native. The whole thing felt slightly more botched than the DEC Alpha rollout. At least that processor still lives on in a way...
       
 (DIR) Post #A9mwFHMA6M0XLvpiqW by tek@freeradical.zone
       2021-07-29T17:50:26Z
       
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       @sleepychris I had to maintain some Itanium servers at a prior company, and running Linux with GCC/clang instead of any proprietary HP/Intel compilers, it ran like cold molasses. They were just slow, expensive servers that were unlike other platforms just enough to make them a pain in the ass.
       
 (DIR) Post #A9myXHzwed0sSo9o9o by eqe@aleph.land
       2021-07-29T18:16:03Z
       
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       @tek oh man we had to use itanium at my first startup because HP was a strategic investor, and we needed to run 64-bit Linux; we'd prototyped on Alpha, but amd64 was still years from production, circa 2001... What a nightmare.Goodbye itanium, I won't miss you at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #A9myoQsat1kUvptRmS by tek@freeradical.zone
       2021-07-29T18:19:11Z
       
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       @eqe Ugh. Alpha was so much nicer, and that may be what pissed me off the most about Itanic.
       
 (DIR) Post #A9njuJyH99oSZ5vyam by ethicsperoxide@oldbytes.space
       2021-07-29T22:37:43Z
       
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       @tek Sad day. I miss that ISA
       
 (DIR) Post #A9nmylg8NBPNWEGDg0 by tek@freeradical.zone
       2021-07-29T23:10:40Z
       
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       @ethicsperoxide You might be the first person I've heard say that.
       
 (DIR) Post #A9nxW64oYN6fsdKsmu by eqe@aleph.land
       2021-07-30T05:39:21Z
       
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       @tek alpha really was so much nicer.Didja know that the Itanic patents were held by a separate company, 50/50 owned by hp and intc, licensed to Intel, so that Intel "didn't own" the architecture and therefore it wasn't covered by Intel's compulsory architecture license deal with the clone makers? Really nice end run there.