[rescue] Itanium 2

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Jun 6 09:55:16 CDT 2002


On June 5, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > SGI used to make the SGI 750, which was a UP/DP Itanium box.  They would
> > sell it to you fully loaded with dual 733MHz chips and 2GB of memory for
> > only $19k.  But they EOLed it with the rest of the Intel group.  It was a
> > half-hearted sort of workstation, using only ATI graphics and SGI's
> > distribution of Linux--which you were expected to fork over $495 for.
> 
> HP and IBM both sell Itaniums.

  I think you mean "HP and IBM both have Itaniums for sale."  Nobody is
actually *buying* them.

      -Dave

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