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Subject: Re: Thanks for the link, some IA-64 commentry

Author: leonid

Date: 18:27:42 02/28/02

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On February 27, 2002 at 21:44:03, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>Thanks for that interesting link Dann, I plan to have a good read when I get
>home.
>
>I had a look at the IA-64 architecture a while back, and I was pretty
>disappointed.  It looks overly complex to me, I'm prepared to predict that its
>going to be a massive failure.  If this thing is the future of computing we are
>in for a sad time!

Can somebody more elaborate why IA-64 architecture is not very promissing? What
in it look like more complex compared with some other architectures?

Thanks,
Leonid.

>I bet the folks at AMD are loving this.  Intel bets its future on a chip based
>around technology that has largely been tried and found to be not very wonderful
>(VLIW/EPIC, Register Windows or whatever Intel marketing calls it).
>
>cheers,
>Peter



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