[geeks] New SGI workstation

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:34:03PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > > I hope SOMEONE over there can think longer than his nose, cause the
> > > Altix is Just Another PeeCee(tm).
> > 
> > I don't know about that... SGI is so far the only company to get any
> > performance out of Itanic.
> 
> HP has been able to get good performance out of the Itanium.

I thought they were having trouble with that.

The figures I've read don't show this, but then its hard to keep up with
this stuff.

> Itanium systems are not Wintel.  They've got about as much in common with
> the x86-based systems as any PCI-based Alpha, HP-UX, or Sun system.

The guts on the Itanium systems I have seen were garden-variety PC guts.
Same for quite a few of the DEC Alpha systems I've had.

The Altix and some of the high-end HP stuff are different of course, but
then there are plenty of Intel systems that are nothing like a PC as
well.

A machine that shares most of the same guts as my AMD Athlon system but
has a different CPU... that's not a PC?

I generally call it PC when it has Intel/AMD guts, but in the 90s
workstations started using commodity parts, and the lines were blurred.

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