Subject: Re: not there yet Re: IA64?
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/07/2003 18:54:00
Johnny Billquist said:

>Without commenting on the IA64 and all that: the best and surest way of
>becoming the king of the hill is to kill all competition. :-)

The Opteron has a good chance if they do everything right. They can already
scale to 8 processors. AMD has a lot of former Alpha hardware engineers
working for them. And the systems are going to be quite a lot cheaper than
Itanic.

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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com