Kingsly John wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> |More than kernel, interesting thing is going to be Intel/AMD aka
> |itanium/sladgehammer war. My guess is intel will be on much more
> |backfoot compared to P4/Athlon war. Linux will be only OS available,
> |ready to run on it. That will be interesting scenario.
>
> Hmm... I think a lot of OSes run on the itanium... intel has made machines
Who else runs on itanium? BSD/Sco/Solaris? I can think of BSD as the only
contender.
> available for OS developers.. and linux was amongst the first OSes to be
> ported made easy by the fact that linux runs on the 64-bit alpha chip....
> but the same didn't help M$FT which was the last OS to be able to run
> sucessfully on the itanium!!
Why make a KG kid to fight a heavy weight championship? MSFT has different
playing fields than linux. Let them devise the rule and run it. Let them devise
an OS that doesn't respond to user on heavy I/O and no CPU situation, and sell
it as 'Mother of all OS's'. I use same crap.
It's different....;-)
>
> Kingsly
>
Shridhar
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