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To: chic_hearne who wrote (109776)	5/8/2000 7:07:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) of 1587169

Chic, Re: Questions on Itanium SGI made a similar mistake, hoping to drop their own MIPS processors in favor of Itanium. Unfortunately they let MIPS stagnate and so now they have real problems, trying to maintain credibility when their servers have only 400 MHz processors (albeit lots of them). IBM at least kept their options open, continuing to develop the PPC alternative. Anyway, you identify various physical concerns with Itanium hardware, but IMO the primary issue is one of complexity. IA64 is so much more complex than IA32 that it was bound to be an unstable platform for a very long time. In the target market for IA64, performance is very much secondary to stability. My question would relate to extrapolating the observed failure rates of IA64 systems currently under test. Putting aside performance, when do they project that an IA64 system (+ associated software) will have even remotely the same level of stability as an IA32/Linux server?

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