Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:48:33 -0700 From: "Heredity Choice" <stork@QNET.COM> To: "Nick Slager" <nicks@albury.net.au>, "jadream" <jadream@chat.ru> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FBSD & Itanium? Message-ID: <000a01c040ee$250ae900$73c6ddd1@STORK> In-Reply-To: <20001027221341.C22013@albury.net.au>
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Predictions I have seen suggest that the Itanium will be nowhere near as fast as the DEC/Samsung/Compaq/IBM Alpha, but will be much more expensive to manufacture. IBM has an Alpha prototype running at 1200 MH. To do the same amount of work, an Athlon would have to run at about 2400 MH. The lineup of Alphas currently produced range from a Microway workstation for about $2000 to a Compaq cluster being developed for the U.S. Government which will be the most powerful computer in the world. The best news is that most of the single-processor Alphas already are equipped to run FreeBSD. Apple's Darwin, with its microkernel, should be an easy port to the multiprocessor Alpha and the Alpha clusters. I have just acquired an Alpha EB164 for 5% of its cost new 5 years ago. The only hardware incompatible with FreeBSD was the video card, which has no driver in XFree86 4.01 and has swapped places with the card in my Windows box. From the same period, a Deskstation Raptor, a DEC XL or a DEC XLT will not run FreeBSD. Paul Smith > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Nick Slager > Sent: Friday, 27 October, 2000 04:14 AM > To: jadream > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FBSD & Itanium? > > > Thus spake jadream (jadream@chat.ru): > > > Recently I had a look at Itanium (new Intel's brand) specifications > > and found them really cool. More over Linux version for Itanium is > > coming soon to be available. And what about FreeBSD? Any plans for > > porting it to IA-64? > > I believe there's a port in progress right now. > > > Nick > > -- > From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): > "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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