That would have been horrible. Itanium had 2 goals, first kill all the Unix RISC architectures in the workstation and server market and second to lock AMD out of the server and workstation and then PC ...
The advent of affordable 64-bit computing could be the best thing to happen to Linux in a long time, opening up a new market potentially as important as the original PC market, according to Linux ...
Anyone still considering whether to update to 64-bit Linux kernels now has another big motivation after it was revealed 32-bit editions won’t be getting a major security fix. Intel’s Pawan Gupta ...