Re: Why did VMS users go along with the itanium farce?

From: AEF (spamsink2001_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: 29 Sep 2005 16:36:25 -0700

bob@instantwhip.com wrote:
> "Although it would be nice, Itanium does not need to be the leader in
> latest speeds-n-feeds in order to be successful. It just needs to be
> competitive."
>
> this is sun logic ... can't compete on the technical
> merits so we will just throw together an 80,000 cpu
> box with a million megs of cache and make our
> machine competitive ... that is how you help IT
> progress to new levels ... that is the x86 bandid
> theory ... only, eventually, you run out of bandaids!

Well, x86 has been "running on bandaids" for years. So I would think
that -- based on this reasoning -- this bodes very well indeed for
Itanium, since Itanium has just pulled out of the starting gate.

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