getting my itanium from merced island,.,..,

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

getting my itanium from merced island,.,..,

[pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com]

@atax1a hell yeah

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@pencilears this is just a terrible pun we dont actually have need for an itanium

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@pencilears nor do we want to go to mercer island

[pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com]

@atax1a ahh ok, my wife wistfully talks about them all the time so I assumed you got a good deal.

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@pencilears they are a magnificently cursed architecture and all of the hardware for it is big, heavy, and in the end fairly useless

[cliftonr@wandering.shop]

@atax1a @pencilears

Yes, what they just said.

A magnificently bad idea, splendidly developed.

I wonder if perhaps some group in Intel at the time got fixated on the idea "We're going to do everything that IBM and CDC CPUs can do, only better!" just as the interest in those categories of CPUs and machines was going away forever.

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@CliftonR @pencilears i think someone in the sales department got a little too into the nose candy