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Comment by davidw

17 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64 came out in 2001, although it was something of a huge failure.

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Zev  17 years ago

The Itanium instruction set didn't exactly maintain backwards compatibility with the x86 instruction set.

  • davidw  17 years ago

    I think he added that after my comment, although I'm not positive.

    • jacquesm  17 years ago

      Nothing was added or removed after your comment.

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