From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 8 10:11:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (mail2.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E5214EF6 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:11:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-73-7.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.73.7]) by mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA18377; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:11:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wghicks (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA03921; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:14:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199907081714.NAA03921@bellsouth.net> To: Brett Glass Cc: Yann Ramin , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: IA64 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 1999 22:02:52 CDT." Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 13:14:47 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >It is also far from obvious that IA64 will fly. > > Intel hasn't had a high-end processor that flopped in 17 years. Yikes! The iAPX432 was seventeen years ago? :-) It remains to be seen whether the Merced will be accepted in the marketplace, even if Intel gets it out the door on time. I'm betting against them this time. -- Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message