In all seriousness, OpenPOWER and Power9 look cool, but they're still fighting to overcome the issues IBM and Motorola designed into the architecture. Fairly modern OpenPower9 example here https://www.raptorcs.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

DDR2 was best DDR: https://acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=756

Let me know when you're ready to apologize and give these geniuses ALL YOUR MONEY.

[–] porgamrer 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes if you remove all frivolity I'm sure the joke will be funnier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah but you see, in the first sentence I was only pretending to be dismissive of the joke, because my comment had a second sentence (gasp), where I expanded upon the original joke with another observation of a particularly failed CPU architecture.

It is funny because I used verbal misdirection and a relevant reference from inside the community. And now it gets objectively funnier in my second comment when you make me explain it.

[–] porgamrer 1 points 6 months ago

eh, i really did look for a joke. all i see is a "well actually" opinion that somebody here probably holds

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Itanium jokes are never going to be not funny!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

It's somewhat amusing how Itanium managed to completely miss the mark, and just how short its heyday was.

It's also somewhat amusing that I'm still today helping host a pair of HPE Itanium blades - and two two-node DEC Alpha servers - for OpenVMS development.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

I feel like this has truly earned a "bazinga!"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

El Reg pulls no punches.