• aardA
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, but x86 was relatively cheap. Alpha and Itanium were in a similar price range.

    At that time Alpha belonged to Compaq - and they stopped Alpha development (and canned quite a few good designs which were pretty much ready to go), expecting they’ll be able to replace it with Itanium.