Hi, On 06 August 2009 pm 19:07:12 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:18:09PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On 06 August 2009 pm 16:40:41 Mark Stapper wrote: > > > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for > > > > the Itanium? > > > > > > The one that didn't stick... indeed. > > > > do they really sell machines with this CPU in numbers? > > Wikipedia article on Itanium, Intel manufactures around 200,000
even for a 'RISC' CPU, this number seems very low to me. > > I have not seen one in the wild. > > Not surprising since the Itanium is mainly used in the kind of > high-end server systems that us ordinary people rarely see and > certainly can't afford to buy. I see Sun and IBM machines in places where the Itanium should fit. Some moved away from HP to avoid the Itanium. I know, USD 1 000 000 or more is not what normal people pay for a small computer. Erich _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
