Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 00:59:25 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Yann Ramin <atrus@matadore.montereyhigh.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IA64 Message-ID: <4.2.0.56.19990708005732.0414c5b0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990707213420.27433B-100000@shell-2.enteract. com> References: <4.2.0.56.19990707200123.00b36480@localhost>
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At 10:02 PM 7/7/99 -0500, David Scheidt wrote: >Signing an NDA to work on source availabe system is silly, unless of course >Intel will let you out of it when the make documentation available to >the general public. Which they will. That's their deal with Red Hat. > Intel hasn't had a high-end processor that flopped in 17 years. >Intel also hasn't released a processor that was as far ahead of the >compiler development. It won't be clear that what Intel can deliver >until they ship something. There are lots of cool stuff in IA64, but >if Intel can't deliver mostly bug-free chips, for less than a couple >times what the equivalent Alpha or PA-RISC costs. This is especially >true if the the compilers aren't very good at introduction. The technology for such compilers is well-known. Cygnus already has a prototype. (Alas, GCC is foreclosing competition in this market, so it may be what many of us are stuck with.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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