IBM Buys Rational for $2.1Billion!

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 13:24, Jerry Feldman wrote:

[snip]

> for a new generation, and the Itanium is one of the next generation chips. 
> (The Alpha is over 10 years old, and still pretty much the fastest RISC 
> chip).

  Agreed.  And the inside (though anecdotal) information/opinion I have
heard is that at least five generations of Intel's 64 bit line will be
needed before it finally catches up to Alpha's current performance
levels.  Very sad indeed.  Marketing...well...just bites :-(
  One side note however is that I did find it very cool to experiment
with the built-in always-on (even with the power cord unplugged) serial
console that allowed things such as power cycling the machine remotely
and much more (if you have a serial console hooked up, of course).  I do
hope AMD's 64 bit efforts offer something similar (but better, of
course).
  Still, linuxbios sounds a lot cooler, especially now that it is not
just Linux specific since being coupled with bochs.

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