[rescue] Itanium 2

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:03:50PM -0400, George Adkins wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 June 2002 04:27 pm, you wrote:
> > I still wish I could get my hands on a regular itanium.  It is
> > supposed to be a lot less brain dead than IA-32.
> >
> > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/04/020604hnintelchip.xml
> >
> > But anyway, with the Itanium2, it looks like everything is going to be
> > at least a 2 way SMP setup.
> 
> is that because they need at least two procs to have enough horsepower to get 
> a micro$oft OS booted?

MS is making is sound like they are more interested in supporting
x86-64 than IA-64.  x86-64 appears to be to the pentium what the 386
was to the 286 though.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd