From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 1 1:47:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEE937B422 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 01:47:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f418lBX01954; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:47:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: "Michael C . Wu" , Andrew Hesford , "Michael C . Wu" , Remy Nonnenmacher , jgowdy@home.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 May 2001 01:42:23 PDT." <3AEE76EF.BEF4FF98@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 10:47:11 +0200 Message-ID: <1952.988706831@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3AEE76EF.BEF4FF98@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >"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. And Convex made a GaAs based supercomputer, the 3800 I belive. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message