Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:53:45 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, "Robert S. Sciuk" <rob@controlq.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000820204427.68978O-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <87663.966713907@localhost>
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[i removed -sparc from cc: list] Oh - and while I'm replying to Jordans mail, I agree with anything he says. On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > The Intel platform would seem to be dying, and we'd do well to port to > > better platforms. Our alpha code is ages cleaner than the x86 code, at > > least. > > Heh. I'm not sure I'd share your conclusion that "The Intel platform > is dying" given the extreme growth and increased competition I've been > seeing in that marketplace; there are even x86 compatible chips which > are beginning to compete with the StrongARM in terms of price and > power consumption, and let's not forget our friends at Transmeta > driving the next generation of flat panel "Internet computing slates". > Anybody even pondering the soon arriving end of x86 needs to take a look at pdp11, and consider the fact that they are still being made. Sounds strange? Now consider that at this point, x86 is not exactly in maintenance mode but there are 3 viciously compting producers. I expect new P5 based systems to come out until at the very least next 5 years, by which time anybody has switched to P6, etc. Not a chance of it going into 'maintenance' for the next 10-15 years at the very least, and there will be at least another 15 years of life after that. It only then that x86 will start resembling sparc v8. [snip] > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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