Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 10:47:11 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>, Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@boostworks.com>, jgowdy@home.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Message-ID: <1952.988706831@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 May 2001 01:42:23 PDT." <3AEE76EF.BEF4FF98@mindspring.com>
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In message <3AEE76EF.BEF4FF98@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >"Michael C . Wu" wrote: >> I have been hearing about GaAs since the beginning of my college >> career. One chemistry professor put it rather well, "Gallium >> Arsenide based semiconductors are considered the future of >> semiconductors, and always will be the future of semiconductors." > >Hitachi has a GaAs SPARC chip; it is used in Satellites. > >The CRAY-3 was GaAs based, if I'm not mistaken. And Convex made a GaAs based supercomputer, the 3800 I belive. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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