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

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> 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.

When did they do that?  I wasn't around PCs when the 486 came out (still
in CPM land then), but when the Pentiums came out, I saw workstations
right away (PC Magazine did a test comparison of a 50mhz Pentium against a
Sparc 10, some DEC, some IBM, etc).  Same when the Pentium Pro came out.
 
> Now, how well will it run Win 3.1? ;^)

It won't, except maybe through Bochs.  They did away with 16bit mode
finally.  
 
> (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^)

Well, I would hope that HP-UX is optimized.  But, no, unless VC++ or GCC
are more optimized than we've heard of so far, then not much is going to
be optimized in any way shape or form.  

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Joshua Boyd