Re: future of hp pa-risc processors?

From: Pavel Pokorny (Pavel.Pokorny_at_vscht.RemoveMe.MeToo.cz)
Date: 07/21/05

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    Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:09:13 +0000 (UTC)

    Goetz Hoffart <usenet@hoffart.de> wrote:
    > Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski <m_roguski@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > > Yeah, yeah, we heard that about 8800 too... I still believe that, since people
    > > abandon interest in Itanium (hey, even IBM and SGI!), that may be a good
    > > sign...

    > A good sign for what? They won't move to PA-RISC. IBM will stick on its
    > POWER5 (and they do well) or use Xeon, Opteron and maybe Itanium.

    > PA-RISC has no future since further development is stalled. The last
    > chip releases were slightly improves over older designs but nothing
    > really new.

    Do HP people read this newsgroup?
    Could someone of them spend an informal advice here?

    I am not interested in a platform used by the majority
    of the planet. This will be the first target of software terrorists.
    I want a machine that computes my equations and is reliable enough. 

    -- 
Pavel Pokorny
Math Dept, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology
http://www.vscht.cz/mat/Pavel.Pokorny
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