From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 15:11: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BB9152C6; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:11:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA20212; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:08:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA07651; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:00:20 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id QAA06160; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:08:17 -0600 Message-ID: <37C70C51.CD642035@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:08:17 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: Kenny Drobnack , Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? References: <199908271450.AA099545405@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > >> I recall a conversation not long ago with a sysadmin in the business > >> school here. I was asking what their typical laptop configuration was > >> and was told that some members of their faculty were quite particular > >> about finding out what their colleagues machines had and then making > >> sure theirs was more/better/faster, etc. I highly doubt this kind of > >> purchasing only happens here. :-) > > > > Good point. I know it happens, but is it the majority of the > >market? > > Who knows? But what's so important about being a majority? Intel is not aiming Merced at the majority of the market initially, any more than they are aiming the current generation Xeon processors at the masses now. They do, however, plan to have it become the dominant 64-bit architecture for desktop and server computers. Let 'em have them. I'm personally interested in dominating the market for keeltop computers and bilge severs. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message