thus Michael spake:

>> Hello,
>>
>>
>
>>>>when they're the only alternative to intel et al. (Alpha died, HP-PA
>>>>does, MIPS on the not-embedded field also, SPARC may survive - i hope
>>>>-
>>>>and then there's POWER) i bet even the dumbest economic guy will
>>>>continue it. prove me wrong :D
>
>>
>>
>> SPARC isn't going to disappear any time soon I guess, anyone can make
>> SPARC CPUs and Fujitsu even makes fast ones.


hm, an hour ago i mailed with a Sun employee (AFAIK) about this topic
with your arguments (Fujitsu SPARC64GP etc.).

reply was that UltraSPARC is too slow and even Sun engineers who were
SPARC die-hards are kind of Opteron fans.

this is what one can see if you read between the lines at Sun -- on the
other hand, i really don't understand what the Niagara is about, then.


>> Then there are some brits
>> who apparently make a living by designing and selling ARM-based RISC OS
>> machines, sadly a bit too expensive for me.


sad that the Amiga had no ECC ;)


>>
>> have fun
>> Michael


i'll try ;)

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