[geeks] Re: HP's squandering

Shawn Wallbridge swallbridge at franticfilms.com
Mon Jan 13 15:53:24 CST 2003


Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Do you personally know of anyone, anywhere, who has bought, is 
> planning to buy, or has used, or has even seen an Itanium-based PC?
>
>   I know one person...James Sharp...who played with one briefly on a 
> test-drive program maybe two years ago.
>
>        -Dave
>
> -- 
> Dave McGuire           "She's a cheek pincher.  I have scars."
> St. Petersburg, FL                          -Gary Nichols
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Well, we almost bought one. Mostly for the amount of memory they can 
take. But OS issues (64bit Windows wasn't available) and software issues 
(they were still in early Alpha) made it impractical. We have high hopes 
for the Opteron (what a stupid name).

shawn


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