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Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it



On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:38:18 -0400, Charlie wrote:

> Intel and Hewlett-Packard introduced the Itanium processor (64 bit registers
> and 64 bit data bus) in May of 2001.  The Itanium 2 processor (64 bit registers
> and 128 bit + 8 bit ECC data bus) came out in June of 2002.  The Itanium
> processors run Window XP (64 bit Edition), Linux (4 distributions) and 2 Unix
> versions (HP-UX and AIX).  The Itaniums also have a 32 bit compatibility mode
> so that it can run old operating systems.

Yes, but they are such worthless pieces of crap that we like to pretend
that they don't exist.