@sataa but yeah, #Itanium is trash!
#hp should've done #Alpha and #sgi should've continued with #MIPS instead...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxrybkd7Mo

@marcan this reminds me how #Linux also was the first #OS to run on #Itanium and how the #GCC is even the best compiler for that architecture - even better than #Intel's own!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxrybkd7Mo

But yeah, the only thing that would make @AsahiLinux even faster on #AppleSilicon would be if compiling stuff would be done entirely in RAM wherever possible, leveraging 10x->1000x more IOPS and lower latency.

@kenshirriff
And people thought the #Itanium was a #DumpsterFire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxrybkd7Mo

@anna @fuchsiii @alilly eeyupp....

The only benefit from #Itanium however was #UEFI, tho I still find it bad #Bloatware compared to #LinuxBoot aka. #NERF...

@alilly it's called #amd64 because "#Intel64" / #EMT64 literally is based iff a #licensing deal with #AMD.

#ix64 refers to the #Itanium architecture that predictably and rightfully flopped!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxrybkd7Mo

The Intel #iAPX 432 architecture was the #Itanium of the last century. Beautiful in concept but #compilers hadn’t caught up to it yet.

Anyway I had never actually read a whole lot of documentation on it, but #Bitsavers as always has come to the rescue:

http://www.bitsavers.org/components/intel/iAPX_432/

Hoping that this RFC lands in the #Linux kernel.

Goodbye, #Itanium. It was "fun" getting to know you a few decades ago.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230215100008.2565237-1-ardb@kernel.org/

#Linux Looks To Retire #Itanium/#IA64 Support, in 2021 #LinusTorvalds orphaned the IA-64 #LinuxKernel code. Now as 2023 gets underway and two years since the orphaning, it's possibly time already to strip out the Itanium code from the kernel tree.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retire-Itanium-IA64-Patch

#Linux
Looks To Retire #Itanium
/#IA64
Support, in 2021 #LinusTorvalds
orphaned the IA-64 #LinuxKernel
code. Now as 2023 gets underway and two years since the orphaning, it's possibly time already to strip out the Itanium code from the kernel tree.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retire-Itanium-IA64-Patch

#Linux Looks To Retire #Itanium/IA64 Support

-- Dropping the Intel Itanium code from the kernel will lighten it by 65k+ lines of code.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retire-Itanium-IA64-Patch

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/1625829173255086080

A quick reminder to myself:

• x86 ≡ Original 16 bits architecture [8086⎇]
• x86-32, IA-32 ≡ Intel 32 bits extension to x86 [80386⎇]
• x86-64, AMD 64, Intel 64 ≡ 64 bit extension to x86 [AMD Opteron⎇]
• IA-64 ≡ Intel Itanium architecture

#x86 #Itanium #AMD #Intel

@jhamby My contact with #VMS was in hospital IT systems. #VAX -> #Alpha, -> #Itanium. It slowly faded #UNIX systems.

A quick reminder to myself:

• x86 ≡ Original 16 bits architecture [8086⎇]
• x86-32, IA-32 ≡ Intel 32 bits extension to x86 [80386⎇]
• x86-64, AMD 64, Intel 64 ≡ 64 bit extension to x86 [AMD Opteron⎇]
• IA-64 ≡ Intel Itanium architecture

#x86 #Itanium #AMD #Intel

A quick reminder to myself:

• x86 ≡ Original 16 bits architecture [8086⎇]
• x86-32, IA-32 ≡ Intel 32 bits extension to x86 [80386⎇]
• x86-64, AMD 64, Intel 64 ≡ 64 bit extension to x86 [AMD Opteron⎇]
• IA-64 ≡ Intel Itanium architecture

#x86 #Itanium #AMD #Intel

Schon gewußt? #ITI

#OpenVMS, ein Betriebssystem für Hochverfügbarkeitsumgebungen, erschien bereits 1977 auf dem Markt. Ursprünglich vom Unternehmen Digital Equipment Corporation (#DEC) für seine #VAX-Rechner entwickelt, war es zur Zeit der Erstveröffentlichung ein ausgesprochen fortschrittliches 32-Bit-Betriebssystem. Mit #Alpha, #Itanium und #x86 sind aktuelle Versionen 64-Bit-Betriebssysteme. Aktueller Entwickler ist VMS Software, Inc. (#VSI). OpenVMS 9.2 für x86 erschien im Juli 2022.

A quick reminder to myself:

• x86 ≡ Original 16 bits architecture [8086⎇]
• x86-32, IA-32 ≡ Intel 32 bits extension to x86 [80386⎇]
• x86-64, AMD 64, Intel 64 ≡ 64 bit extension to x86 [AMD Opteron⎇]
• IA-64 ≡ Intel Itanium architecture

#x86 #Itanium #AMD #Intel

Schon gewußt? #ITI

#AMD entwarf eine Erweiterung der 32-Bit-x86-Architektur IA-32 um einen 64-Bit-Modus. #Intel hingegen wollte mit IA-64 "Itanium" eine neue Prozessorarchitektur an den Start bringen. Der Kalender zeigte Oktober 1999.

Der #Itanium hielt zwar rund zwanzig Jahre durch, im x86-Bereich aber machte AMDs Ansatz das Rennen. Bekannt unter dem Namen x86-64 bzw. #AMD64.

Intel baute dann den AMD-Ansatz weitgehend kompatibel nach, als EM64T oder auch IA-32e oder schlicht "Intel 64".

A quick reminder to myself:

• x86 ≡ Original 16 bits architecture [8086⎇]
• x86-32, IA-32 ≡ Intel 32 bits extension to x86 [80386⎇]
• x86-64, AMD 64, Intel 64 ≡ 64 bit extension to x86 [AMD Opteron⎇]
• IA-64 ≡ Intel Itanium architecture

#x86 #Itanium #AMD #Intel

I never did an #introduction (well, this is an edit, so I kinda did), so here goes:

• I like #ObjC and am the developer of @ObjFW
• I'm interested in obscure CPU architectures and *enjoy* writing assembly for them (weirdest in my collection are #Itanium, #PARISC and #SH4 🙂)
• I'm into obscure OSes (e.g. #MorphOS)
• I collect retro hardware
• I am a #Matrix advocate (decentralized & federated like Mastodon!)
• I mostly use #Linux and #NetBSD as a daily OS
• I am also a @haiku developer

A quick reminder to myself:

• x86 ≡ Original 16 bits architecture [8086⎇]
• x86-32, IA-32 ≡ Intel 32 bits extension to x86 [80386⎇]
• x86-64, AMD 64, Intel 64 ≡ 64 bit extension to x86 [AMD Opteron⎇]
• IA-64 ≡ Intel Itanium architecture

#x86 #Itanium #AMD #Intel