Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:35:09 01/20/00
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On January 20, 2000 at 16:19:54, leonid wrote: >I am not that sure why some chips are so expensive and not others. It could be The bigger the chip, the more it costs. The more advanced the process, the more it costs. The Itanium is huge and uses the latest process, so Intel has no choice but to make it expensive. >this will happen one day. You remember that you said me once that one 64 bits >computer is sold for as little as (if my memory is right) 1200$. Never mind that >this computer is only 400Mhz and don't have that many registers that Intel is >expected to have. Probably even now this computer is very attractive. Producer >must only fix its compatibility problem like AMD and other already did. The computer I told you about is a 533MHz Alpha. There are no compatibility problems to fix--I'm sure it's 100% compatible with other Alphas. You realize that if you just write your program in C, you don't have to give a damn about any of this. Spend a few minutes recompiling and you can run on the most exotic hardware. -Tom
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