RE: It is almost certain now, INTEL will have 64bit x86 !!

From: Main, Kerry (kerry.main_at_hp.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:21:43 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JF Mezei [mailto:jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com]
> Sent: February 25, 2004 2:59 PM
> To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
> Subject: Re: It is almost certain now, INTEL will have 64bit x86 !!
>
> "Barry Treahy, Jr." wrote:
> > If MS wanted to be there, they would have had better
> support for IA-64
> > long ago, they haven't because the performance wasn't where
> it belonged...
>
> Microsost isn't after performance, it is after volume. That
> is why windows on Mips Power and Alpha were canned, even
> though they all outperformed the 8086.
> And MS isn't interested in IA64 because there will not be the
> necessary volume to justify continued development for that
> platform which will bring MS no much, if anything, more than
> what the 64 bit 8086 brings for Windows.
>

JF -

Re:
> Microsost isn't after performance, it is after volume. That
> is why windows on Mips Power and Alpha were canned,

Small nit - Lets not re-write history... Microsoft only dropped Power,
MIPS and Alpha HW platforms *after* the appropriate vendors themselves
dropped Windows as a platform. Obviously, if the vendor does not plan to
support the platform, then neither could Microsoft.

Regards

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
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