Comment by bsder

> It was wrong, but it was controversial among experts at the time.

Only for those who fail to study history--which means quite a few people.

Fox example, when Intel announced Itanium, the DEC architects (and IBM, I heard later) cheered. They knew Intel was about to dump a ton of money chasing a White Elephant.

Alas, they underestimated the business side and the fact that Itanium, while being a technical disaster, was basically a business success and scared everybody out of the microprocessor business except for IBM.