Author: leonid
Date: 16:17:38 03/17/03
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On March 17, 2003 at 18:00:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 17, 2003 at 17:27:25, leonid wrote: > >>On March 17, 2003 at 16:41:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On March 17, 2003 at 16:34:36, leonid wrote: >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>Where are so long expected 64 bits machines? >>> >>>Intel stuck the Itanic in the closet. >>>AMD still looks like it wants to move forward with Hammers/Opterons >> >>At least some hope is there! >> >> >>>>Are they already accessible for "average" person? >>> >>>Not yet. You can buy an Itanium, but the price is an unholy fright. >>> >>>>What chess program was already written for new 64 bits chip? >>> >>>Any bitboard program. >>> >>>>Please, say everything that You know about possible massive arrival of 64 bits >>>>chip. >>> >>>A few months away yet. Probably one year before they are cheap. >> >>Not too long to wait, after all. >> >> >>>Of course, you can get a DS10L for a song here: >>>http://www.hpaq.net/ >>> >>>We just got one for a trade show a couple weeks ago. Tragically, DEC/Compaq/HP >>>architecture is dead, dead, dead, dying, dead. >> >>Can You recaputulate why this architecture never became enough prominent, or is >>"clinically dead" right now? > >You can buy new systems from HP. >http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/ > >However, it has been formally announced that development of new Alpha chips is >dead. There is a migration path to Intel Itanium announced. OpenVMS has been >alpha tested on Itanium. > >In the words of Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabit": >"I bought the 'Red Car' so I could _dismantle_ it." It is truly sad that this kind of chip (Alpha) went to its end! Still, other fact of migration to the new Itanium chip is very positive. This signify that Intel's 64 chip had certain success and its quantity production is coming in real. Then prices cuts should become tangible very soon.
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