Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 20:58:00 01/18/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 15:14:05, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On January 18, 2001 at 11:55:29, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On January 17, 2001 at 23:21:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On January 17, 2001 at 22:52:22, David Wilke wrote: >>>>On January 17, 2001 at 17:59:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>>> >>>>>On January 17, 2001 at 17:47:34, John Dahlem wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Are these new 64 bit processors just for servers, or are they going to replace >>>>>>32 bit processors within 1-3 years? >>>>> >>>>>Pretty much any new processor Intel introduced was aimed >>>>>at 'servers only' in the beginning. However, home users >>>>>always want the latest and the fastest so no doubt they >>>>>will be on the desktop soon...Unless the price is really >>>>>outrageous. >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>GCP >>>> >>>>Intel has outragous prices? Say it isn't so... :) >>>> >>>>Intel is going to lose the processor war. Athlon can easily compete, and is the >>>>cheaper solution. Someone should wake up the marketing idiots at Intel and get >>>>them on the ball. >>> >>>Athlon does not compete with Itanium. There is no VLM model with Athlon. The >>>direct competition for Itanium is Compaq's Alpha chip. >>> >>>If you have some database that needs 12 gigabytes of physical ram and 100 TB of >>>virtual memory, how will you address information with Athlon? It is outside of >>>the address space. >> >>Only a small part of the server market needs this I would think. I don't believe >>you can conclude "Athlon does not compete with itanium" from this. > >Yes, 95% of servers are small ones. But people who choose hardware/spftware >combinations hope that one day their company will grow, and they will have to >process huse amount of data. So they are choosing scalable solutions, even if >95% of them will never use that scalability. > >Eugene Buying an itanium for its VLM is going way overboard even for them. > >>> >>>The 64 bit address space and 64 bit native operations are unique to those two >>>(and a smattering of other chips that nobody will ever care about).
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