On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 12:43, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > According to Andrew Suffield: > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:25:12AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > > > Of the three points, I (as one of the folks involved with the BSD ports, > > > at least) am quite willing to grant that amd64 is worthy of special-case > > > treatment because of what it is, and where it's going. > > > > Do I really have to remind people that this was said of ia64, too? > > So ia64 is a dud; anyone who wasn't in Intel marketing (or drank their > kool-aid) could see it. You're not suggesting that amd64 is going to > run aground like ia64 did....? Well, considering that the AMD64 (Opteron) has already outsold ALL versions[1] of the Itanium Combined. Intel tried to use enough shellac to polish that turd. I dunno what do you think? Doesn't look that way to me. [1] That means both Itanium and Itanium2 at all processors speeds. -- greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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