Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 22:05:56 01/18/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 23:58:00, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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. Maybe, but they will do this. A lot of startups bought Suns instead of Intel machines because they hped that one day they'll need all that scalability. And Suns (till recently) were more several times more expensive than comparable x86. Eugene >> >>>> >>>>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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