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

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (63521)	12/6/2005 2:13:46 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The funniest part of that brochure is when they say "binary compatibility isn't enough...your existing applications can't just run on a new architecture, they have to run well." Oops. One of the biggest bloopers Intel committed with the initial "Montecito" Itanium (or whatever it was called) was throwing in a half-assed x86 emulation mode that went beyond useless all the way to disgraceful, and was a major factor in the Itanium's early market failure. This was when HP was, at least publicly, backing Intel's play. --QS