[geeks] Yeow! That is a pricey CPU for a PeeCee!

[Ken Hansen]

In the old days, they would have said how a chip this powerful would only be of use in servers, well HP is shipping servers and workstations based on this chip family.

My, how times have changed.

Now, how well will it run Win 3.1? ;^)

Ken
(Unless I am very mistaken, there is not *any* code optimized for this CPU curently, is there? Maybe I should announce a port/distribution of the Linux kernel/GNU tools to the Itanium, and taking a note from "Mandrake" (the Pentium optimized distribution) I could call it "Holyfuck", as in "Holy fuck, Xbill runs too fast!" 8^)



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:09 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Yeow! That is a pricey CPU for a PeeCee!


On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:59:04PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Intel unveils Itanium pricing
> Prices for the 64-bit Itanium processor, which comes in four models, range from
> approximately $1,200 to $4,230.
> http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO61925_NLTpm%2C00.html

And HPs box runs from $7-14K.  Yow.  733 or dual 800Mhz.
Comes with HP-UX, WinXP, *and* Linux.

"fuck that, spend $2K on a PC with better performance"

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX
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