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Subject: Re: The correct operating system

Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.

Date: 11:26:15 08/24/03

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On August 24, 2003 at 14:14:10, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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

Eugene,that's how i see it also. I haven't seen anything yet to convince Me to
purchase a Itainium system. We're talking about a system for playing Chess
Program only. I understand the release of x86-64 isn't far off.



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