was there any advantage or special use case for running an itanium windows workstation instead of x86 back then?
More than 3GB of application memory space and more than 4GB overall (including the NT kernel).
At that time, this was starting to become a major issue at the high end of servers and workstations.
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More than 3GB of application memory space and more than 4GB overall (including the NT kernel).
At that time, this was starting to become a major issue at the high end of servers and workstations.