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

[G W Adkins]

> > 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.
>
Apparently, they have HUGE 'Floating Point Nads' (tm) ...
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT061101221315

"...800 MHz clock rate and 4 MB of integrated L3 cache, it turns in a
mediocre 370 SPECint_base2k but an industry leading 711 SPECfp_base2k..."

George