begin Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The first 2 implementations are called: > > > Athlon 64 (desktop) for 1-2 way systems > > > Opteron for 1-8 way systems (more with extra glue). > > > > you're referring to SMP here? > > Yes, er, close enough anyways, technically it's CC-NUMA. > > > and neither claw nor sledgehammer will be available to the general > > public till september as of right now? > > Er, no, the server chip Opteron is due in April. > > > > Not to mention paying $15k for a dual IA64-2 only able to run ia32 code > > > as fast as a PII-300 is kinda silly. > > > > sounds like intel is shooting itself in the foot... > > Er it's a completely redesigned server architecture (the first in a decade > or two), designed to last a decade or two for servers. Competition for > Alpha (RIP), Sun, SGI Mips (RIP) and IBM's Power. > > Not saying it's going to be wildly successful, it's just not designed to > run 32 bit apps.
errrrr, thanks. ;) pete -- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi, being prophetic about Linux. Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
