From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 14 16: 1:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3008637B71A for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 27277 invoked by uid 100); 15 Mar 2001 00:01:44 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15024.1640.544526.101490@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:01:44 -0600 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: hornback@wireco.net, chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) In-Reply-To: <95078711@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Redirected from -questions.] Ted Mittelstaedt types: > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew C. > > This is what they want the PC to be once the IA-64 hits mainstream. > >Which basically means that when the Itanium gets out there and into > >the hands of more than the technophiles, nearly everything that we > >have now is going to be obsolete. > I really doubt it. I think your going to see the motherboard and CPU > change but it will still go into the same case, take the same peripherals, > and same ram, and all that. Probably it will spawn a lot of hand-wringing > about how the "rest of the system" is holding back the power of the > IA-64. Which sounds like it will parallel the x86 line growing up. The best line I remember from that era was something like "The x86 performs very well in a well-designed platform. Now, if only you could buy an x86 architecture other than IBM-PC clones off the shelf." http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message