On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:16 AM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchovski@gmail.com>wrote:

> >  I liked it for the same reason I
> > liked those Cell processors - I'm weird.
>
> a lot of people really hated it because it killed alpha...
>
> Yes that was very sad.   I liked Alpha too, but business reasons caused it
to die more than Itanium as a technology.