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To: Win Smith who wrote (142878)	9/5/2001 9:30:22 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Win, Re: "the main problem I have with the Itanic is that it killed so many other decent architectures before it ever shipped." It's Darwinism of the computer world. Chip architectures that cannot keep up are naturally selected to make room for the stronger ones. In this case, neither Compaq nor HP could keep up with the increasing costs of upgrading their micro-architectures in the face of increased competition. So they opted to let Intel do it for them. Like you said, Merced arrived years later than it should have. It's already an aging micro-architecture, but McKinley, Madison, and Deerfield are right around the corner to give Itanium an edge over anything that Compaq or HP would have been able to come up with on their own. Given the delays common in the RISC world (take any architecture for an example... they all have massive delays), aggressive designs like EV8 or PA-8900 would have never seen the light of day, anyways. Better to make way for designs that have a future. You shouldn't cry for talent lost, since those engineers have moved on to bigger and better things. Paper designs aren't worth much in the real world until you can make a product out of them. wanna_bmw