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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (69303)12/2/1998 8:05:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Mary,

How soon do you think IA-64 will reach high end desktop and workstations?

It is not obvious that IA-64 offers any advantage on the desktop. The value of the EPIC architecture lies in the fact that some server software can be cleanly divided into intermingled threads.

If IA-64 offers no significant performance advantage over the huge existing x86 software base, there is no reason to expect it to be any more successful on the desktop than any other RISC architecture.

Scumbria



To: Mary Cluney who wrote (69303)12/3/1998 1:14:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Respond to of 186894
 
<How soon do you think IA-64 will reach high end desktop and workstations? Ballpark estimate.>

I can name one coworker who's planning on buying his very own McKinley system once its released, but he's a nut. ;-)

Ballpark estimate, maybe the late 2002 to early 2003 timeframe. Of course, this depends heavily on which direction the computing world takes a few years from now.

Tenchusatsu


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