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?