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They thought Itanium was the way of the future. They were wrong.

Are we sure about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

A few reasons: x86 is conceptually busted. By the late 1990s, it was clear that the whole CISC concept was conceptually flawed and energy-hungry...

Intel had PAE in the 90s already, 32 bit could very well address over 4 GiB. What it couldn't do is handle very large files (limited to 4 GiB in...