[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Gavin Hubbard]

> 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.

I'm guessing here - but would the Altrix 3000 machines have been designed when Cray was stil part of SGI?

Regards,

Gavin