Re: HP admits discontinued IA64 workstations

From: Nigel Barker (nigel_at_hp.com)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:38:22 GMT

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:37:57 GMT, rdeininger@mindspringdot.com (Robert
Deininger) wrote:

>In article <4154C05C.84F7535F@teksavvy.com>, JF Mezei
>One of these workstations is just a reconfigured rx2600 server, with a
>slightly different case and an alternate IO cage that has one AGP slot
>instead of just PCI slots.
>
>The only significant loss here is the AGP slot. Apparently there wasn't a
>lot of demand for AGP in Itanium systems. Pretty similar to the situation
>on Alpha.

Not having AGP is unimportant nowadays. Even desktop PCs are all going to PCI-X
which gives higher bandwidth than AGP. All the latest graphics cards from ATI &
Nvidia are PCI-X & at the high end are probably the last generation of AGP
cards. 

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

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