From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 18 14:36:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873AC37B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:36:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03596; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:36:30 -0800 Message-ID: <3A17046E.3F566B53@urx.com> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:36:30 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Halbert Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium Itanium References: <3A16FF7A.56889031@gte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Halbert wrote: > > Hey Everyone! > :) > > Do you think that FreeBSD supports the new Pentium Itanium 64-bit > processor? I looked at the Intel website and they say UNIX does > support it. Afterall FreeBSD does run on other 64-bit processors. > I'm not sure if I just wanna go ahead and get a Xeon with a 2MB L2 > cache or wait for the Itanium to come down in price. If you don't need more than 4GB of memory, the first Itanium's aren't supposed to be any faster than your Xeon. But then a 1.2GHz AMD Thunderbird with its multiple pipe lines may be faster than the Xeon. I would also bet (but not very much) that the P4 will be much faster than the Itanium for most applications. The P4 will probably work with FreeBSD when it is released RSN. I'm not sure where were are at on having a system for the Itanium. The usual rule is that Intel will want a small fortune for them and you can out perform them with smp and one of their considerably less costly cpu's. I've used 64-bit for years and I'm not holding my breath on Intel doing it right on the first chip. They did borrow some of the Alpha architecture, which has been true-64 bit forever, and that help. My introduction to 64-bit was a Cray XM/P and we could move Fortran programs to the Alpha virtually with only a recompile. As far as the Itanium is concerned, I'm just going to wait and see. Kent > > *sigh* > Decisions, decisions... > > Thanks :D > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > | Jason P. Halbert | res02jw5@gte.net | > | Transmitter Maintenance Engineer | ICQ#: 86637300 | > | KDAF-TV WB33 | DALnet: Push^Pop | > | KDTX-TV 58 | (214) 252-3300 | > ------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message