Author: Bo Persson
Date: 08:23:41 07/28/01
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On July 27, 2001 at 21:26:37, Dan Andersson wrote: >These chips I'm talking about could be here any day now. It's only a question of >business and marketing. The Alpha architecture moght as well be dead at the >present time, since Intel owns its R&D. Or they could rename Alpha EV8 the Itanium II and have a real killer! :-) > And all the others are not even close to >taping out. Except for the Itanium, but its integer performance and x86 ISA >emulation is lacklustre. If I can't have commercial SMP capable programs on a >platform it's back to comparing apples and oranges. But as long as Intel ask $4000 a processor, there will not be many systems anyway. At least not with any significant number of processors! Bo Persson bop2@telia.com
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