[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:25:02PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 06:41 PM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> >So, SGI is in the process of dumping a lean, elegant, and proven CPU
> >platform with lightning-fast compilers that they're "committed" to,
> >in favor of a newcomer CPU with approximately zero marketshare that
> >has previously flopped in the market and has no decent compilers, with
> >the hope that the single largest source of VBScript viruses and spam
> >will ride the cavalry home with the silver-bullet of a compiler that
> >will make everything okay?  Where to I sign up???!
> 
>   I wouldn't worry too much about it.  Itanium has failed miserably in 
> every market.  Itanium2 doesn't address any of the problems that caused 
> Itanium to fail; there's no reason to believe it'll do any better.

Well, it does address one problem.  Itanium never had anything other
than a motherboard that closely followed the Intel reference design from
what I saw.  The Itanium2 already has more variety.

Also, the Itanium didn't appear to be marketed.  At least, I never saw
any ads for it like I do for the Xeons and P4s.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd