Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 21:48:55 02/06/99
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On February 07, 1999 at 00:36:27, Don Dailey wrote: >>I agree that after those years Alpha will be better suited for >>handling of those huge resources than x86. But I still beleive >>that Intel will resolve its problems with IA-64, as it resolved >>problems with CISC that many beleived will forever harm x86. Or >>that something else will happen. Five years is a very long term >>when you are talking about computers. >> >>Eugene > >I don't think they'll ever be on the cutting edge, there will >always be something significantly faster. But they will always >be cheap and affordable and within a factor of 2 of the >highest performers in my opinion. That's the market they >dominate and I don't see this changing anytime soon. > >- Don For example, cutting edge can be HP's implementation of IA-64 (please note that HP PA-8500 has performance that is roughly equivalent to 21264, according to MPR). Eugene
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