[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

[Mike Meredith]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:27:20 +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > and AMD, UltraSPARC, PowerPC will be the winners by default.
> IIRC Sun canceled the US V. I asume they will go the AMD64 route
> sooner or later. 

I believe the intention was to use Fujitsu's SPARC64 for high-end stuff.
They do of course have the possibility of extending what's been done
with the USIV, and just have more and more USIII cores integrated into a
multi-core CPU. But I wouldn't be surprised to see Sun move to AMD64
sooner or later.

Of course with the possibility of Solaris 10 on the PowerPC, they
could end up going that route.

> It is simply to expensive to develop a CPU, that can
> deliver the same raw performance as an Intel or AMD CPU, for a "small"
> company like Sun or even SGI. 

It's a shame that the "small" companies didn't see this coming 5 years
ago and collaborate on a common design. Probably too late now though.

> Especially as many wanted to by Alphas with Tru64 (IMHO much better /
> nicer then HP-sUX) and where talked to by Itanic with HP-sUX.

Some people (looks at pile of old Alphas) gritted their teeth and
switched to Sun. I still miss some neat Tru64 features.