alt Hacker NewsThe Itanic was built specifically by HP to sink Fujitsu, hitachi, nec, unisys and sgi. So in that sense it was a success.
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butterisgood • last Sunday at 11:14 PM
True. But it’s a technological representation of all that’s wrong with the industry.
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This was my take on it: https://honeypot.net/2021/07/29/the-itanic-has.html
Key relevant quote:
> In 1994, Intel and HP looked around and saw a wide variety of successful server CPU architectures like Alpha, MIPS, SPARC, and POWER. This annoyed them and they decided to make a new CPU that no one would want to use.