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Comment by matoro

1 day ago

That was me that filed the Itanium test suite failure. :)

Ah, porting to HP Superdome servers. It’s like being handed a brochure describing the intricate details of the iceberg the ship you just boarded is about to hit in a few days.

A fellow traveler, ahoy!

  • I worked on the Superdome servers back in the day. What a weird product. I still can't believe it was a profitable division (at my time circa 2011).

    HP was going through some turbulent waters in those days.

The Itanic was kind of great :). I'm convinced it helped sink SGI.

  • Itanium did its most most important job: it killed everything but ARM and POWER.

  • Why was the sinking of SGI great?

    • Oh, that wasn't the intent. I meant two separate things. The Itanic itself was kind of fascinating, but mostly panned (hence the nickname).

      SGI's decision to built out Itanium systems may have helped precipitate their own downfall. That was sad.

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  • SGI and HP! Intel should have a statue of Rick Belluzzo on they’r campus.

one of the best books on Linux architecture i've read was the one on the Itanium port

i think, because Itanic broke a ton of assumptions