[rescue] Sun 711

[dave at cca.org]

jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:

>On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:36:52AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:

>>   Yes.  The Itanium promised to sweep away all (at least most) of the
>> x86 cruft, but it's DOA.

>Is there something wrong with it, or is it just failing to take off?

It's our generation's Algol-68.

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