@p @cvnt @NonPlayableClown @mischievoustomato @Hyperhidrosis @frogzone >NetBSD supports VAX still. Wonder if they've dropped Itanic.
It's still listed on the ports page: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/ia64/, but apaprently it's still "work in progress" without any stable releases. The second last page in the mailing list archive is a discussion on dropping it from a year ago: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-ia64/2023/05/thread1.html
>So a regular CPU doing the regular CPU stuff for an OS with this insane VLIW coprocessor, that would be pretty cool.
Sounds close to PS3's Cell architecture, albeit I don't think it's VLIW. That said, Itanium might be giving VLIW a bad reputation, Crusoe was also VLIW and performed well enough until Pentium M dropped; sadly it never gave developers access to underlying ISA without the x86 translation layer.