"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. -- Timothy H. Keitt National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Phone: 805-892-2519, FAX: 805-892-2510 http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~keitt/
