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

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

Date: 30 Sep 2005 06:42:26 -0700

JF Mezei wrote:
> "Main, Kerry" wrote:
> > 1. 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. Heck, Sun has proven that over the years and as slow as
> > SPARC was,
>
>
> There is a big difference here. SPARC was succesfull, considered the

Fascinating. You refute Kerry by agreeing with him that SPARC was
successful. IOW, he said it was successful, and now you say the big
difference is that it was successful. (!)

> "industry standard" for Unix and was widely regarded as a safe platform.
>
> IA64 has none of those attributes. It doesn't have an established user

So what you're saying is that Itanium can't be successful because it
isn't already successful. I think that's anti-circular reasoning. :-)

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