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Itanium version 1, including all changes.
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[Intel] and [HP] realised (quite rightly) that the 32 bit processors were running out of steam. |
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Together they jointly designed a chip called the Itanium which could run in both big endian and little endian mode to replace an HP chip and the [ia32] architecture. |
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Unfortunately they did some major things wrong and it hasn't taken off: |
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- not compatiable with [ia32] - the assembler was similar but not the same and you couldn't run [ia32] code |
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- slower than [ia32] - much slower originally but the gap is closing |
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- expensive |
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This chip is also known as the [ia64] |
