Re: IA64 or AMD64?
Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> writes:
> On 9/20/2012 4:40 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
>> On 21/09/12 09:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>>> You are either:
>>>
>>> 1. Horribly lazy
>>> 2. Incompetent
>>>
>>
>> Or having a bad day, or been dropped in the deep end by the employer, or
>> any one of a number of things we don't know about.
>>
>> Suggesting google or debian.org or whatever is fine, but this is way
>> over the top, IMHO.
>>
>> I'll assume _you're_ having a bad day :-)
>
> Not at all.
>
> That box is a couple of generations old, however, it cost over $10K USD
> when it was acquired, sans edu etc discounts. It was top of the line.
> Anyone working for an organization with that kind of budget, acquiring
> this caliber of hardware, should already know the basics of most, if not
> all, processor architectures commonly used with Linux, both CISC/RISC,
> and VLIW (EPIC). And if not, should be able to find it one click deep
> on the website without needing to ask here.
>
> IA-64 has been with us for just over a decade. x86-64/AMD64/EM64T have
> been with us for almost exactly a decade. This should be common
> knowledge by now, and especially so for someone working with such machines.
Why do you assume he's doing it for work? If he said something about
being an experienced sysadmin, I missed it. This could easily be a box
he bought as the n'th owner or from ebay or something.
Everybody has to start somewhere, and none of us knew what we were doing
when we started (sort of by definition). That he's at that stage now
doesn't mean he's an idiot.
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