<![CDATA[Programmer’s Career - Medium]]> https://medium.com/programmers-career?source=rss----983c505b987f---4 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/proxy/1*TGH72Nnw24QL3iV9IOm4VA.png Programmer’s Career - Medium https://medium.com/programmers-career?source=rss----983c505b987f---4 Medium Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:03:37 GMT <![CDATA[Linus Said Intel’s Itanium Fell Flat in 2003. HP Kept It Alive, and Oracle Paid $4.66 Billion.]]>

AMD widened the old x86 instead, which is why Linux packages say amd64. A secret deal stretched the loser’s life, and someone had to pay

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For two years the original took in about $63 a month while its Rust rewrite found backers

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A chip vault built for banks ended up guarding movie keys. The buyers lost playback while the lock had already been picked

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Nokia's CEO said MeeGo was finished even if the N9 was a hit, and the engineers who built it took it out the door

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The foundry started on other companies' leftovers with one willing partner. It now books $122 billion a year, and Intel is a customer

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He wanted six bits for System/360 and lost. In 1970 he left IBM and sold System/370-compatible mainframes built on the eight-bit byte

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Chi’s author spent a year fighting Go’s version rule and broke his users dodging it, then gave in four days after asking Go to change it

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She worked under a new name for three decades before a historian's website brought her design back to her

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Apple switched chips twice with a translator called Rosetta, and after macOS 27 the second one falls silent for all but a few old games

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