Author: leonid
Date: 05:24:51 05/18/02
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On May 18, 2002 at 00:09:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 17, 2002 at 16:19:42, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On May 17, 2002 at 15:18:40, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>[snip] >>>A machine price range $20000 for just 2 processor 1.2Ghz (where > 1.6Ghz >>>is the standard now) is just too expensive. >> >>AMD's sledgehammer will force down the price point. >> >>People who are buying those machines are people with huge database systems that >>a 32 bit chip cannot address. At some point there will be a consumer 64 bit >>chip. If not by Intel then by AMD. And if not by AMD then someone else. > > >They are already available. We just bought a bunch of new Sun 64 bit >workstations for under $2,500 each... And what do hinder Sun's sale? Just different system that nobody knows and not used to, or something else?
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