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.