T. Martin writes:
> 
> Everyone is forgeting another player, HP, and the PA-Risc I have limited
> knowledge of the newer systems but the own a few 715/xx apollos that
> peform nicely.  
> 

PA-RISC, while a lovely architecture, is quite dead.  HP is going Itanium 
only; indeed, they helped Intel design it. 

Ken Seefried, CISSP