Re: OT about Asus, was Re: What is the point of RAID?
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:38:39PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> The current crop of boards is a marketing-driven thing. You don't get
> the best board, anymore, you get what the industry has decided to give you.
>
> Like the color coordination of clothing, or the artificial flavor of the
> month, motherboards are no longer a tech-driven item. The engineers
> design what the sales department tells them to.
>
> They are only intended to last appx. three years. (2-3 release cycles.)
What about if you don't stick with i386/amd64? I know, there are fewer
and fewer (e.g. VAX, Alpha, etc). Do, e.g. HP-9000s have a longer
design life? What about IBM SystemP (formally RS/6000) which is
PowerPC-based? Sun's Sparc64?
Doug.
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