[geeks] Sun to adopt newest Intel Xeon chips for upcoming servers (link)

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Fri Jan 26 21:05:33 CST 2007


>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/01/26 Fri PM 07:41:33 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Sun to adopt newest Intel Xeon chips for upcoming 
servers (link)

>Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>> I don't keep a Windows box around for gaming anymore.  I just use Cedega 
>> under NetBSD.  It works well enough.
>
>It won't play any of the games that I like.
>
>I thought a few years ago that by now the emulation of Windows would be 
>a done deal, but it still isn't really that good, at least not to me.
>
>The real solution is obvious of course:
>
>All games should be written to use OpenGL and OpenAL, and then they'll 
>port easily.
>
>Yeah...

Or, the last few hold-outs can give in, and trade in their various *nix-based 
systems for the perfect platform, Vista ;^)

Lionel



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