wbmw, that's right, the OEM support was marginal - but Intel was pushing it as hard as today. The net did not exist at that time, so it's hard to find any links. I was involved into some i860 activity, so I recall some publications about a workstation here and there and also some significant supercomputer efforts. I don't think that any Compaq-size OEM widely adopted it, but I think all of them evaluated the chip. I'm not particularly informed.
You see the difference between Intel pushing really hard and EOM adopted? Intel was pushing both times, but then OEM's were more independent and they refused. Now they don't.
Imagine, how much efforts Dell spent to produce the Merced server? They sold absolutely zero of those, they lost a lot of money. Do you think they did it just for fun, or Intel was involved?
And finally, do you think Compaq customers celebrated when Intel forced Q to kill Alpha? Intel strongarmed Compaq, HP is strongarming customers, and you are talking about wide OEM adoption. Absolutely everyone is pissed-off including customers, and you are proclaiming that Itanium has much more of success than i860. Maybe it does, in your scale.
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