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would you?

  • yes

    Votes: 25 18.9%
  • no

    Votes: 62 47.0%
  • depends

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And you can probably blame the Intel Itanium for that since it was so full of promises that nice projects like SPARC, RISC etc failed to compete with its hype and got abandoned.

SPARC and PA-RISC are very much alive and well and are used tremendously all over the industry. x86 is gaining popularity, though, no question about that.
 
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