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

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 21:21:39 CST 2007


Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> 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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LOL



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