Re: IA64

["Timothy H. Keitt" <keitt@nceas.ucsb.edu>]

"Thomas W." wrote:
> 
> Whatever comes in the near or far future, Alpha is here already. It's proven,
> it's fast and I can actually *buy it*. I doubt, Intel will make it in
> the first attempt, but I assume future generations of the IA64 will be
> *very* interesting - but yet, this remains to be proven.

My guess is that Alpha has a one to two year window before it sees any
real threat in terms of fp throughput in its price range.  I hope Compaq
uses the time well.  (They certainly will have done so if they can
deliver on 1Gz+ 21364.)  I plan on going Alpha in the short term.

T.

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