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Date:      Thu, 15 May 2003 22:48:57 -0400
From:      Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net>
To:        freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Quick question ia64 vs amd 32/64
Message-ID:  <20030516024857.GB25123@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030516013941.GA38966@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <1053046569.f0b2ee7da38a9@mail.mjpelletier.com> <20030516013941.GA38966@dragon.nuxi.com>

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* David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> [2003-05-15 21:40]:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:56:09PM -0400, Michael J. Pelletier wrote:
> > 1) Which architecture is currently supported more Intel or AMD?
> 
> Intel IA-64
> 
> > 2) Which architecture will be maturely supported first by FreeBSD?
> 
> IMHO, AMD64.  Note I am biased though.  Today more committers have AMD64
> boxes than IA-64, much less 6 mo. from now.  The AMD64 platform has a
> much more common i386 architecture and can share i386's packages.
> 
> 
> > In your option which architecture is better and why?
> 
> AMD64, but again I'm strongly biased and this question should be taken to
> chat@freebsd.org
>  
> -- 
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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You're probably better off getting infrom from Gartner or 
Giga.  They track stuff like that...

jpb
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