Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:01:44 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: hornback@wireco.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <15024.1640.544526.101490@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <95078711@toto.iv>
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[Redirected from -questions.] Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew C. > > This is what they want the PC to be once the IA-64 hits mainstream. > >Which basically means that when the Itanium gets out there and into > >the hands of more than the technophiles, nearly everything that we > >have now is going to be obsolete. > I really doubt it. I think your going to see the motherboard and CPU > change but it will still go into the same case, take the same peripherals, > and same ram, and all that. Probably it will spawn a lot of hand-wringing > about how the "rest of the system" is holding back the power of the > IA-64. Which sounds like it will parallel the x86 line growing up. The best line I remember from that era was something like "The x86 performs very well in a well-designed platform. Now, if only you could buy an x86 architecture other than IBM-PC clones off the shelf." <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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