I got to work with one of the first Itanium machines back in 2000 working as an intern. My job was to port Perl to IA-64. It was an amazingly fast machine - like living a few years into the future.
I can see why it failed to gain mass traction, but that’s a shame. IA-64 was so innovative.
HP paid my employer (Progeny) to help port Debian packages to an early Itanium system. I don’t remember thinking it was fast at all, but maybe my memory is colored by later miseries.
I can see why it failed to gain mass traction, but that’s a shame. IA-64 was so innovative.