Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:53:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO Message-ID: <20030929195304.GA74320@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030929193516.GA7976@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200309291400.h8TE0IVN091981@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309291401420.24400-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <20030929180732.GA7088@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030929191930.GB78284@ns1.xcllnt.net> <20030929193516.GA7976@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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In the last episode (Sep 29), Wilko Bulte said: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:19:30PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > I also mentioned recently (in the last couple of days) that we > > should worry more about sparc64 than alpha. Simply because I think > > alpha is on it's way down and should already be a tier 2 platform > > and sparc64 is still on its way up ... sort of. > > In my book sparc64 is also with one foot in the grave. As is Sun > itself. Fujitsu makes sparc-compatible CPUs, too, so it'll be harder to kill the entire architecture like HP did with the Alpha. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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