for me its gonna be death by a thousand rackmount servers
@PurpCat @theorytoe Wow, Itanium, neat stuff! I thought it was garbage when they were still in use, but now that I did more reading, the idea behind it was actually quite interesting, but too complicated. AMD meanwhile went all in on oversimplification and started eating into Intel's main market so they had to give up on this expensive hobby of theirs.
@PurpCat
For general purpose computing — yes, without proper optimization the whole thing didn't make any sense.
I remember when Pentium Pro was released, it had tons of innovative features and code written specifically for it ran well, but old programs and especially games sucked ass compared to similarly clocked older Pentium, it was such a failure — people hated it🤣
With PII they have mitigated it and old programs ran better.
@PurpCat BTW, I have a dual Pentium Pro Siemens workstation sitting under my Mac Pro, maybe I should try putting it to use. It's still i686, I'm not sure though that newer Linux kernels will run on it, they definitely don't have PAE and all that 🤔
