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Subject: Re: The correct operating system

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 11:14:10 08/24/03

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On August 24, 2003 at 13:51:09, Peter Stayne wrote:

>>Everything I've seen and read show higher benchmarks for the Opteron over
>>Itainium. What information can You present to make Me change My mind?
>
>I wouldn't try and change your mind. :) Itanium is too expensive and too
>proprietary. Going Opteron is the way to go. Just gotta wait a bit for an x86-64
>compatible Windows.

Itanium is exactly as proprietary as Opteron is -- each CPU is manufactured by
exactly one company, and no other company licensed it (yet). And you can buy
Itanium2 system for ~$3,300 -- comparable to what you should pay for high-end
x86 system (though that x86 system will have more, and probably will be faster).

Thanks,
Eugene



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