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To: Elmer who wrote (123703)12/27/2000 4:36:31 PM
From: Rob Young  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
That's not vapor. That's hardware although not quite ready for primetime.

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Actually, I'm not the only one that considers it vapor.
The Itanic made number 5 out of the Top Ten vaporous
products for 2000:

wired.com

5: Intel's Itanium chips: Two years ago Intel said it
would have powerful new 64-bit chips for workstations and
servers out by the summer of 2000. But delivery of Itanium
(also known as IA-64 and Merced) has been pushed back
so consistently, the Register is calling it Intel's "Itanic."
"I've been hearing about it since 1997 and I actually
think new, whole Amigas are going to ship before this
ever sees the light of day," said Nathan Walls.
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