[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 13 18:31:30 CDT 2001


On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:50:01AM -0400, Zach Malone wrote:
> I noticed that SGI is one of the few companies selling Intel itanium based
> machines.  Are these shipping yet?  Do they compare with other 64bit RISC
> chips?  Will other RISC vendors be moving to 128 bit?  I know that apple is
> using a 128 bit bus to the G4, but as I understand it, the G4 itself is
> still a 64 bit chip.

Itanium = "too little, too late".

Even HP has moved their focus back to PA-RISC.

bill

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Bill Bradford
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