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bunnycorn on Feb 22, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Spa...

This, AMD64 killed Ithanium, and that's why "x86" won the server.

icedchai on Feb 22, 2019 [–]

x86 was already on plenty of servers before Itanium. 64-bit hardly mattered until servers with >4 gig RAM became common in the mid 2000's.

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