On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:52:56PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:27:12PM +0000, David Murphy mentioned:
> > > and considerably faster than solaris 7 x86. You must know this.
> > IMHO. Solaris for Merced/Itanium is the first non-SPARC version Sun
> > are even pretending to take seriously.
>> Intel are not impressed with Sun. Seems like Sun know that the itanic is
> doomed, and they aren't going to bother being the first to market with an
> OS for it.
Given that GNU/Linux already boots on itanium, isn't being first
to market with an OS for it a bit passe? :)
Anyway, by all accounts, McKinley is going to be the processor of
choice.. and that's being made by HP. Why can't intel just use their
codenames, instead of Pentium IV or whatever.
L.
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