• 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.