[rescue] sparc10 cpu - what to do.

Phil Stracchino phils at caerllewys.net
Fri Dec 16 16:02:12 CST 2016


On 12/16/16 16:55, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> pa-risc is gone.  alpha is gone.  mips is radically retargeted.  if
> sparc goes, power may be the only alternative performance chip left.
> itanium?  i was at hp when the first gen was launching [disastrously]
> and i understand why hp threw in with intel, but i predicted then that
> intel would eat hp's lunch, and it seems to be coming to pass.

Intel's thrown in the towel on Itanic.  But it makes me happy that I'm
still running MIPS64 in production, even if it is only on my
router/firewall.


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