Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:04:52 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: rbw@myplace.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Compaq's alpha unit being sold (off-topic) Message-ID: <20010625180452X.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010625140615.L3157-100000@wonky.feral.com> References: <20010624235945G.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010625140615.L3157-100000@wonky.feral.com>
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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Subject: Re: Compaq's alpha unit being sold (off-topic) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:13:31 -0700 (PDT) > Hmm- I can't tell whether you are saddened or thrilled by this scenario. Saddened to be sure, but saddened in a way that someone who's watched a someone live purely on life support equipment for years and then finally die might be saddened. Sad, but long-since resigned to the inevitability of the event once it finally came. Call me an optimist, but I think the future is actually rather bright for new processor architectures. While the x86 remained viable, it set the computing industry back years and convinced a lot of people that it just wasn't worth competing with legacy designs. Now that Intel has more or less tacitly admitted that it's run out of steam by going for a substantially different design with Itanium, it legitimizes the effort for more nimble companies. Itanium is a good example of a fine idea in principle but not particularly attractive in implementation. To my thinking, at least, that leaves the door pretty wide open. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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