Hi Guys,
 Well, I have had some experience with the HP Itanium stuff. Its actually
pretty cool to boot windowsXP (for whatever that is worth), HPUX and then
Linux. Same machine.
http://www.hp.com/products1/itanium/servers_workstations/index.html

 Remember, PARISC CPU's cost about 10k each. Itaniums run as quick or faster
and cost a lot less. This is a good thing. Its the right direction. A PIII
cpu is a pretty quick thing, and sure does not cost a lot. Its a great time,
IMHO.

Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vance Dereksen" <vance@ikickass.org>
To: "T. Martin" <catfish@alltel.net>
Cc: "NetBSD Vax Port" <port-vax@netbsd.org>; "NetBSD Alpha Port"
<port-alpha@netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Slightly Off-Topic...


>
> HP is switching to Itanium.  Itanium is actually partially based on PA.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
>
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, T. Martin wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Brian Chase wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > >
> > > > I guess I'll have to pin my hopes on SUN (I never thought I'd say
> > > > that, but they are the only sensible company left).
> > >
> > > Well, there's IBM too.  Technically, I don't really think their
RS/6000
> > > hardware is the most leading edge, and god forbid you have to use AIX
as
> > > an OS.  Still, IBM does understand long term customer support--I'll
give
> > > them that.  I also don't think they're going away anytime real soon.
> > >
> > > -brian.
> > >
> >
> > Everyone is forgeting another player, HP, and the PA-Risc I have limited
> > knowledge of the newer systems but the own a few 715/xx apollos that
> > peform nicely.
> >
> >
> >
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