I still vividly remember my boss showing me the plans for support of
Intel's Itanium processor.
As someone who taught operating systems and compiler design for a number of
years I still remember my shock that THIS was the answer for Intel's 64-bit
chip....an Ultra-Wide Instruction set.
I wailed away about how all of this was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.....mostly
because I had spent the past six months proving why even a regular CISC
system was the wrong answer, and here Intel was going in the opposite
direction.
After twenty minutes of me fuming my boss simply grinned, shrugged his
shoulders and left my office.
While I was proud of the fact that the Alpha processor was so prominent in
the production of the movie "Titanic"......now I had to deal with a real
life "Itanic"....watching it sink.
md
P.S. It was only a month or so after, I think, that AMD came out with a
reasonable extension to the i86 architecture....which (although it was not
RISC) I was reasonably happy with.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:24 AM Tim Keller via WLUG
Hey Everybody,
We've got a meeting next week on the 11th at our same time (7pm)
As for a topic, if somebody would like to present something, I'd be up for it. I figure we'd all toast the depreciation of Itanium in the linux kernel. Good riddance!
We'll definitely be talking about the PI4 Nano!!
As usual, I'm sure other topics will organically surface.
Location: Our usual Jitsu haunt: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA
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