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> It killed a lot of other interesting architectures and gave nothing in return.

What sort of architectures (if any) got killed as a direct result of developing IA-64?

That aside, though odd and impractical, I found Itanium to be at least a technically interesting perspective (both in terms of architecture, ie VLIW, and in terms of the amount of technical work it inspired at HP and Intel, such as the Itanium C++ abi [1])

[1] https://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html

parent frjalex 5 years ago

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