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

To: Michael Bakunin who wrote (55815)	4/13/1999 2:42:00 PM
From: gbh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, here's what I know (take it with a grain of salt). Winframe - great product. Absolutely no two ways about it. Allows me to ; 1) Use an old 386/486 PC, either LAN connected or dial connected to a Winframe server, and run any x86 app. Doesn't matter if the app requires a newer 486, Pentium, or Pentium 2. When LAN connected its also very fast. 2) Run any Windows app from my Unix desktop. Don't need a second PC sitting next to my workstation to run business apps. Truly awesome. Not sure about your point on Xwindows. Winframe on Unix (actually something called Windd from Tektronix) runs side by side with the normal Xwindows Unix environment. Its just another window in Xwindows from which Micorsoft Windows apps can run. is porting to IA64 going to be easy? Existing win32 will run without recompile, albeit with no better performance. Who'se writing compilers? How good will they be? Well, initially, INTC and MSFT. INTC to seed developers, MSFT to sell for profit. I'm sure the other compiler companies will also; Symantec, Borland, etc. Probably they will be OK at first, better later. What market does IA64 address? No doubt the performance workstation and server markets. Of course,t he performance workstation market, driven by high performance FPU, is also the hard core gamer market. These guys want high frame rates and beautifully rendered 3D. How interested is that market in IA64? All the high end workstation companies (with the exception of Sun, obviously) will have product at introduction I would guess. I'd guess this means they feel their customers are interested. What happens if it's IA64 vs x86-64? Depends on MSFT, and who gets there first. I don't know of any AMD-64 bit product plans. How will the FTC/DOJ like it if Intel starts muscling everyone onto IA-64 while keeping it strictly proprietary? Can't patent an instruction set. Plenty of legal presidence. AMD will reverse engineer I'm sure. With Win2K yet to run 'all win32 apps', why do you gloss over a wholly new architecture? Sorry to gloss over. No one said it would be easy. But INTC has always succeeded in compatibility before. No reason to think that fail this time. Gary