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To: rudedog who wrote (56939)	11/22/2003 1:17:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

All of that discussion was years before silicon was at hand. By the time even good simulators were available, it was pretty clear that a lot would need to be done to make IA64 work. And then just when it looked like a practical solution had been discovered, Roy got bitten by that damn tiger, and it was back to the drawing board<G>. --QS

To: rudedog who wrote (56939)	11/22/2003 1:47:42 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

thanks, very interesting. My ex-husband looked at the Itanium and concluded it didn't hit the mark a year or so ago... but by that time the tombstone had already been written. Based on what you are saying, it sounds like the Itanium suffered from what we all know as big-company large market share-itis, where they spent too long analyzing in the beginning- way too long from conceptualization to launch on this chip- in an effort to satisfy all parties and deliver some super product that was all things to all people. How can you possibly hit the mark on a 10 year design.... that never happens as planned. 10 year old things take off all the time, like Linux but they are never intended to be killer apps.