From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 1 1:42:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net (blount.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC8F37B422 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 01:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (pool0731.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.194.221]) by blount.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA11157; Tue, 1 May 2001 04:42:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3AEE76EF.BEF4FF98@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 01:42:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: Andrew Hesford , "Michael C . Wu" , Remy Nonnenmacher , jgowdy@home.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium References: <20010417205711.C64757@cec.wustl.edu> <200104181422.f3IELwC11439@luxren2.boostworks.com> <20010426180836.C88522@peorth.iteration.net> <20010426192352.A2341@cec.wustl.edu> <20010427102622.D88522@peorth.iteration.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Michael C . Wu" wrote: > I have been hearing about GaAs since the beginning of my college > career. One chemistry professor put it rather well, "Gallium > Arsenide based semiconductors are considered the future of > semiconductors, and always will be the future of semiconductors." Hitachi has a GaAs SPARC chip; it is used in Satellites. The CRAY-3 was GaAs based, if I'm not mistaken. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message