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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (164411)4/22/2002 1:55:29 AM
From: tcmay  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
The notion some here (Dan3) have that computer companies are going to build large ("enterprise," though I hate that neologism) computers out of x86 processors like the Hammer is bizarre.

IBM is using their own 64-bit Power4 as a building block, Sun is using its own SPARC variant, H-P has PA-RISC but is migrating to IA-64, and Compaq/DEC used to have Alpha but is also migrating to IA-64 (probably even if the merger with H-P falls through).

Whether these companies should be going it alone on a building block, or letting Intel do the manufacturing, is debatable. But the notion that any of these companies is going to be building fault-tolerant, transaction-oriented, robust systems on a Clawhammer is just plain silly.

--Tim May
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