With the end of 2025, the last commercial support obligations for Itanium hardware have ended as well. Essentially, Itanium finally, officially died 4 days ago.
Itanium was the longest lived (25 years) of Intel's various failed attempts to kill x86. It obviously failed in this regard, but it was successful at killing other RISC CPU architectures, including PA-RISC and Alpha.
Previous attempts include iAPX 432, i960 and i860, all now consigned to the dustbin of history, along with IA-64 (Itanium,) although the i960 had some success in embedded IO controllers.
HP-UX was always the "busted" Unix. In the 1990s when you'd read instructions for compiling software, there were always workarounds for deficiencies with HP-UX.
Irix was more than a "movie star" (appearing in Jurassic Park) -- all the graphics innovations we have today started with SGI, and Irix was solid. The first 64 bit Unix was IRIX. The Nintendo 64 was the direct child of SGI workstations. But the SGI keyboards were mushy as all hell so I guess nobody is perfect.
In fact HPUX was the first Unix I was introduced to as a CS student back in 1997. I remember the large monitors that were super high resolution and CDE looked great. You didn't need anti-aliasing because the fonts (well-designed bitmap fonts) looked crisp and readable on those enormous 19" 1600x1200 CRTs. When LCDs came out they were a real step backwards compared to those monitors. Has take a long time to finally exceed the quality of those 1600x1200 displays with modern 2k and 4k displays.
With the end of 2025, the last commercial support obligations for Itanium hardware have ended as well. Essentially, Itanium finally, officially died 4 days ago.
Itanium was the longest lived (25 years) of Intel's various failed attempts to kill x86. It obviously failed in this regard, but it was successful at killing other RISC CPU architectures, including PA-RISC and Alpha.
Previous attempts include iAPX 432, i960 and i860, all now consigned to the dustbin of history, along with IA-64 (Itanium,) although the i960 had some success in embedded IO controllers.
HP-UX was always the "busted" Unix. In the 1990s when you'd read instructions for compiling software, there were always workarounds for deficiencies with HP-UX.
Irix was more than a "movie star" (appearing in Jurassic Park) -- all the graphics innovations we have today started with SGI, and Irix was solid. The first 64 bit Unix was IRIX. The Nintendo 64 was the direct child of SGI workstations. But the SGI keyboards were mushy as all hell so I guess nobody is perfect.
Solaris had an enormous amount of effort
In fact HPUX was the first Unix I was introduced to as a CS student back in 1997. I remember the large monitors that were super high resolution and CDE looked great. You didn't need anti-aliasing because the fonts (well-designed bitmap fonts) looked crisp and readable on those enormous 19" 1600x1200 CRTs. When LCDs came out they were a real step backwards compared to those monitors. Has take a long time to finally exceed the quality of those 1600x1200 displays with modern 2k and 4k displays.
When I got my
But, as the saying goes, all good things come to an end.
Only MS DOS^WWindows is immortal.
Not really. But it is the one most overstaying its welcome.