[rescue] Sun 711

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > > >   Yes.  The Itanium promised to sweep away all (at least most) of the
> > > > x86 cruft, but it's DOA.
> > >
> > > Is there something wrong with it, or is it just failing to take off?
> >
> >   It seems ineresting enough, if a little overcomplicated.  But nobody
> > seems to be buying them.  They seem to have been available for some
> > time, but nobody seems to care.
>
> Maybe it's because the only people who Intel seriously are those who won't
> buy sub 1ghz procs because they aren't as fast.

Another problem is that many of the vendors making Itanium based machines,
have similar machines of a better-proven architecture, usually at a lesser
price.

Peace...  Sridhar

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