Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:30:25 05/18/02
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On May 18, 2002 at 08:24:51, leonid wrote: >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? Nothing is hindering their sales. They are selling a bunch. But they don't run PC software... That is the biggest problem with Sun...
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