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> Even Gentoo is dropping its support

NetBSD supports VAX still. Wonder if they've dropped Itanic.

> That said, Itanium's spirit lives on in Elbrus/E2K, partially fueled by my tax money.

The, uh...

> The Elbrus 2000 (or e2k; Russian: Эльбрус 2000) is a Russian 512-bit wide VLIW microprocessor developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) and fabricated by TSMC.

Holy fucking shit.

> the Elbrus 2000 architecture implements dynamic data type-checking during execution.

This is actually kinda cool. It seems like something that'd run better as a coprocessor, though. Like, even on a conventional CPU, 90% of the time (90%!) is spent waiting for the memory bus. 20 instructions per clock would have to be way worse. So a regular CPU doing the regular CPU stuff for an OS with this insane VLIW coprocessor, that would be pretty cool.