flame-bait contra Re: anti dot-net spew

Trent Shipley wrote:
>
> I'm not certain the "only runs on Intel" is much of a distinction. As far as
> I know Itanium will be the only chip in its league.
>
> Cost of development and building a fab is getting just to high for there to
> be more than one producer. IBM, HP, and Compaq are getting out of the CPU
> biz. Motorolla probably will too. Don't know about SUN.
>
> As for having to upgrade every three years, aren't you the one who says the
> cost of hardware and the OS is "irrelevant"?

I'm interested in the russian 64 bit processor, maybe not be
technologically
as advanced as others but I think there would be some interest in it
here in
the states.

Armand

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