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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gbh who wrote (55770)	4/13/1999 1:01:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I used WinFrame once, and I hate it. This is hard to believe, because Xwindows isn't exactly a sparkling performer, but it made me miss X -- and I haven't used X since college. That said, you didn't answer the questions raised by the article: is porting to IA64 going to be easy? Who'se writing compilers? How good will they be? What market does IA64 address? How interested is that market in IA64? What happens if it's IA64 vs x86-64? How will the FTC/DOJ like it if Intel starts muscling everyone onto IA-64 while keeping it strictly proprietary? With Win2K yet to run 'all win32 apps', why do you gloss over a wholly new architecture? As I said, I think that that article was a shallow analysis, but at least it raised interesting points. -mb