I bet you could put “Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for Itanium” straight on the internet with no patches and nothing would happen to it. @GossiTheDog @malwareunicorn
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Omg I remember that story! Was that a Raymond Chen anecdote?
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One of the pros flown in once told me on the hallway track. But it's likely the story made rounds, because it's just too good.
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Just the fact that Itanium didn't allow unaligned accesses (whereas x86 and AMD64 did, albeit very slowly) forced you to play nicely with memory, in an era where C unions and hacky pointer casts were still common practice.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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