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huxley on Dec 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Intel Enigma

A bit surprising that Jean-Louis confused Itanium with PA-RISC. Itanium was started at HP as a successor to PA-RISC and provided an emulation mode for PA-RISC legacy users but it's EPIC (VLIW) architecture was pretty much a clean slate.

abrowne on Dec 14, 2014 [–]

I noticed this too, and thought it was especially funny considering both names are linked to their respective Wikipedia entries.

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