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This article in the link below is technically a lie about the Intel Itanium as one of the 5 worst processors of all time because Itanium was never meant to be a desktop processor anyway and it didn't get support because programmers were somewhat to lazy to reprogram some their programs if not all for the new EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Set ) Architecture regardless of if I can understand why to some degree considering the amount of time needed to do so, but every program has or has a fundamental flaw anyway and as for Windows 10 that was why Microsoft may have actually skipped called Windows as Windows 9 because of third party if not their own softwares problem with version checking in the code.
Itanium was and still is mostly used in highend or still existing mainframe computers using Intel processors that I know of or might be correct. AMD just beet Intel to the table with making x86_64 aka AMD64 backwards compatible to the table just as Intel had done with past processors and besides my former Linux Instructor who has a PHD in Electrical Engineering said Intel attempt or way of making x86 backwards compatible all these years with past x86 architectures was flawed anyway. As for the other processors this article mentions people may have had no other choice based on budget. I know Itanium is at least used for highend servers currently because I spoke with HP about HP-UX and they sent me links about HP-UX as well as their highend server featuring Itanium 9500 and 9700 processors, which weren't that bad interms of specs.
However, I am choosing or gonna choose not to buy these or HP-UX because it is closed source and will only run on HP hardware meaning if the machine(s) breaks down moving the operating system with or without the original harddrives in going to be difficult and the same goes for IBM's AIX that must be run on IBM power-z processors systems, which is the possible problem with Solaris that pretty much requires Sun now Oracle Sparc processors as well as possibly even AT&T's UNIX that they said they still use that won't or couldn't answer what hardware it required to run on. That is the problem with so many other processors or processor based systems to is software portability too, but that is not what this thread is exactly about.
The only problem I see with the Itanium now is that it lacks as many cores as a current Xeon Scalable if not some previous Xeons products. Also, that any available motherboards may lack enough expansion slots for graphics processing or significant graphics processing to take that load off the CPU.
https://m.hardocp.com/article/2017/08/17/top_5_worst_cpus_all_time
Itanium was and still is mostly used in highend or still existing mainframe computers using Intel processors that I know of or might be correct. AMD just beet Intel to the table with making x86_64 aka AMD64 backwards compatible to the table just as Intel had done with past processors and besides my former Linux Instructor who has a PHD in Electrical Engineering said Intel attempt or way of making x86 backwards compatible all these years with past x86 architectures was flawed anyway. As for the other processors this article mentions people may have had no other choice based on budget. I know Itanium is at least used for highend servers currently because I spoke with HP about HP-UX and they sent me links about HP-UX as well as their highend server featuring Itanium 9500 and 9700 processors, which weren't that bad interms of specs.
However, I am choosing or gonna choose not to buy these or HP-UX because it is closed source and will only run on HP hardware meaning if the machine(s) breaks down moving the operating system with or without the original harddrives in going to be difficult and the same goes for IBM's AIX that must be run on IBM power-z processors systems, which is the possible problem with Solaris that pretty much requires Sun now Oracle Sparc processors as well as possibly even AT&T's UNIX that they said they still use that won't or couldn't answer what hardware it required to run on. That is the problem with so many other processors or processor based systems to is software portability too, but that is not what this thread is exactly about.
The only problem I see with the Itanium now is that it lacks as many cores as a current Xeon Scalable if not some previous Xeons products. Also, that any available motherboards may lack enough expansion slots for graphics processing or significant graphics processing to take that load off the CPU.
https://m.hardocp.com/article/2017/08/17/top_5_worst_cpus_all_time
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