I'd say Itanium Is are fair game, being roughly contemporary with late PIIIs.... Here's an interesting question: Itanium is as dead as Alpha and PA-RISC, but its commercial lifespan was from 2001 to 2020. Do we get to talk about those in the UNIX/Workstation forum, or is the body still too warm?
SGI made the Prism, based on Altix 3000 series Itanium systems. Ran Linux, not IRIX. A Prism Extreme maxed out with 256 processors would have been (and would STILL be) a sweet system.
Oh wow. I did NOT know SGI was still building machines as late as 2005. I figured much like Sun their later systems were just off-the-shelf Intel or AMD x86 processors in fancy cases. Man that is awesome.
The Itanic had effectively sunk before ever a chip was even released. So yeah, vintage because it was like the chip was designed from the start never to be in current real-world use. :-) (And honestly, where else but in vintage forums could you even discuss it without people running away screaming, or perhaps beating you until you stopped talking?)... Here's an interesting question: Itanium is as dead as Alpha and PA-RISC, but its commercial lifespan was from 2001 to 2020. Do we get to talk about those in the UNIX/Workstation forum, or is the body still too warm?
