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Subject: Re: 64-bit machines

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 21:49:13 02/09/03

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On February 09, 2003 at 23:53:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>BTW, you should compare Itanium2 clock speed with clock speed of the *server*
>CPUs, not desktop ones. At the moment Itanium2 was released it clock speed
>looked reasonable fast. And soon faster Itaniums will be released...

Funny, wasn't VLIW supposed to allow for much higher clock speeds than those
hopelessly complicated wattage burning old-school OOOE chips? ;)

The 1.3GHz POWER4 was available long before Itanium 2, as was the >> 1GHz P4
Xeon...

-Tom



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