From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 8 0: 0: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D4A154EF for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA10051; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:59:54 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.56.19990708005732.0414c5b0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.56 (Beta) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 00:59:25 -0600 To: David Scheidt From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: IA64 Cc: Yann Ramin , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.56.19990707200123.00b36480@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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