Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: QwikSand who wrote (48572)	4/25/2002 11:42:01 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

And how many of your similar 'predictions" have been wrong over the years?

To: QwikSand who wrote (48572)	4/25/2002 3:11:43 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

QS, IA32 compatibility is a non issue for IA64. If you are going to run a 64 bit processor you are going to use 64 bit software. To take advantage of the AMD 64 bit processor you will need specially written software as the MSFT collaboration proves. AMD's method of tackling it is because they can't afford to go the whole hog like Intel has. You seem to suggest there might be a market for AMD where someone ran a server running the new 64 bit MS OS but then ran 32 bit apps on it. But why on Earth would they want to do that? They would be better off saving the hardware cost and buying a 32 bit server. Intel will do well selling IA64 hardware to customers running the IA64 version of Windows with the IA64 version of MS SQL Server. Why would such an installation require IA32 compatibility?

To: QwikSand who wrote (48572)	4/25/2002 3:17:00 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

qwik one thing i recommend you doing is thinking forward. as soon as you talk about the latest and greatest anything in technology, look forward. by that I mean, forget Itanium. that's like the clowns talking about NT and the bsod. that's three years ago. in technology what happens NEXT is important. when you look at it that way, you see that Mckinley is the real clown killer, and the IA32 line just gets bigger and better and badder. qwik. discount my man, discount.

To: QwikSand who wrote (48572)	5/8/2002 4:11:40 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Re: Intel embracing a Hammer-like architecture Eventually the "kludge of a kludge of a kludge ..." paradigm will collapse. BTW, some of you may have wondered where I've been the past couple of weeks. The short answer is Europe. Perhaps I'll elaborate later when I have some time. Right now I want to read the 300 +/- gems of wisdom that have appeared on this board during my absence. (After that, there are close to 600 new posts on the MSFT board, and I'm sure they're chock full of reasons to dump SUNW and buy MSFT, which in retrospect would have been a good strategy a couple of years ago, but one I chose not to adopt; it's far from clear whether perhaps one should adopt the reverse strategy now, with SUNW's price/sales ratio so much lower than MSFT's and a recovery possibly on the horizon.) JMHO. Charles Tutt (SM)