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To: muzosi who wrote (45306)	6/27/2001 4:23:45 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

x86 is the worst isa imaginable to put in a workstation or server but it is in both. whether an isa succeeds depends on how much the owner spends on the implementation/process technology and marketing. I have to disagree with you there. Success (at the levels Intel needs for Itanium) is dependent upon the overall infrastructure and acceptance by the software developers, not on anything that one company, even Intel, can do to promote it. x86 was certainly not an ideal server platform but it was cheaper than the alternatives and it had the biggest base of software. That is why it succeeded. I would expect that at some point Intel will produce a reasonably performing IA64 chip that will find a niche somewhere. But a niche is not what they need.