Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:34:56 -0500 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <02d501c0acf8$86240bb0$0f00000a@eagle> In-Reply-To: <15024.1640.544526.101490@guru.mired.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:02 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: hornback@wireco.net; chat@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux > (More Questions!) > > [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." Back in the late 80s/early 90s, didn't Apricot (UK) do this with the 386 and 486 based systems they produced? Also, wasn't NetFrame (now Micron's server division) working on something similar? Using one x86 processor for the system and another x86 for I/O functions? --- Andy (CC any replies to me, as I'm not on -chat list, thank you.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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