[geeks] New SGI workstation

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > HP has been able to get good performance out of the Itanium.
>
> I thought they were having trouble with that.
>
> The figures I've read don't show this, but then its hard to keep up with
> this stuff.

They get good benchmark numbers, however the Itaniums are no match for
more traditional architectures in real life situations. So people are
staying away from them.

> > Itanium systems are not Wintel.  They've got about as much in common with
> > the x86-based systems as any PCI-based Alpha, HP-UX, or Sun system.
>
> The guts on the Itanium systems I have seen were garden-variety PC guts.
> Same for quite a few of the DEC Alpha systems I've had.

Well, everything nowadays is "PC" guts really. :)