does there exist a good writeup of the Itanium story? ideally I'd like something that covers the business side and also the technical side, and it would be a retrospective, not something from when people thought this might work
@regehr Have you read Bob Colwell's oral history?
> The Intel iTanium project started with the Multiflow compiler. They gradually
rewrote pieces of it to make it go faster.
https://www.sigmicro.org/media/oralhistories/colwell.pdf
ARF from recent times: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-itanic-saga
@sdbbp no! but I will, thanks!
@regehr I'm particularly curious to see what magic HP pulled to convince Intel to do another attempt at VLIW 
@koakuma @regehr my favorite part of the whole saga is how while the HP and Itanium guys were high on life and VLIW, several key people in the PPro team (which were ex-Multiflow and hence had actually, you know, shipped a VLIW) were going "either you have figured out something really major and fundamental that we never got or you're fully talking out of your ass"
@regehr I'd love to see something balanced like that. I think it's very often lop sided (mostly trending negative, almost at the meme level).
