• ylaiOP
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    1 year ago

    I read an interesting observation that many platforms IA-64 „killed“ (commercially), now outlives it on the kernel tree, because they have retro computing enthusiasts — whereas IA-64 has none.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      From memory IA was an Intel/HPE colab and now HP had to sue Intel to agree to the original terms of the agreement on support.