Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 23:46:51 02/28/02
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On March 01, 2002 at 02:31:05, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On March 01, 2002 at 00:18:02, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On February 28, 2002 at 21:27:42, leonid wrote: >> >>>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? >> >>The first stab at it by Intel was horrible (outperformed by their 32 bit chips >>-- OOPS!). Their next generation is a lot better. Since they have bought the >>rights to the technology from the Alpha chips, I assume some of the good >>features will eventually fold their way into the IA64 core. >> >>It's not horrible. It's just not all that great. And it's getting better. So >>nothing to worry about. > >Dann, you seem to be talking about the implementation of the chip. I am talking >about the basic architecture, the stuff that doesn't really change, the whole >design philosophy behind the thing. Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so as long as it performs well enough, I won't mind much. It doesn't matter a lick if the other processors are better. Intel is what we are going to have for mainstream. They are even canning the Alpha chip and planning to run OpenVMS on Itanium. All the compilers will be for IA64. MIPS is dying, Sparc was bad to start with, and Alpha got buried for reasons obscure. The AMD chip won't have any compilers. So what have we got left?
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