[rescue] Itanium 2

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:44:17PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> IBM was going to give us a loaner, but the rep said we would be better off
> waiting for teh second generation IBM machine (not Itanium 2). He was saying
> that all of the first Itanium boxes were almost identical (reference
> designs) and the next model IBM came out with would be an IBM design and
> would have more features.
> 
> I think the price on it was about $70k CAN for a quad 800 or something. We
> could use the 64bit memory addressing, so it would be nice to have one, but
> we haven't heard back from them yet.

Hopefully it will be more than just a large address space machine.
Being a real barn burner under most sorts of loads would be nice.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd