Anim88tor,
>>I understand the advantages of 64 bit processors, I also use them.
I used Alpha 21164 and 21264 some time ago, slightly - MIPS and Sun.
I worked on i860 and PA7100 as well.
>>What were your impressions of the Itanium.
It works!
It works in 1-way, 2-way and 4-way configurations. I saw them, I used them
It so funny - processor is not released yet, while you are working on it.
I'm not asking that much by now - it's a preproduction systems after all,
some of them are even more - engineering samples. So I have a pity
>>I would have to say I am tremendously skeptical for a few reasons.
>>First that Windows 64 is involved.
If you don't like Windows 64, there will be Linux and some major UNIXes as well.
>>Windows NT/2000 is, and has always been like a bicycle tube
>>made out of patches sooner or later...
Your words are much more applicable to Win3.x / Win9x / Win Me.
IMHO Microsoft sells this stuff (Win98 and WinMe) only to prove for masses
that MS software means [-peep-]. They should switch all and everyone to Windows 2000,
as it was intended when they renamed NT 5.0 to Win2000. Many sorrows would just go away.
I wrote many applications and participated in many server, distributed and
three-tier systems using NT 3.51, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000.
Believe me, you can use them to do a work
>>I cant see how MS could compleatly divorce its self from its past.
I would like UNIXes to divorce from their past - after all, they are way older (30 years) than NT (7 years).
UNIXes have too many ugly things from the past
most people forgive for a single sake of reliability.
Some evangelists so used to this ugly 'heritage' that
they will never admit that it's ugly.
>>If Irix, Solaris, Linix,etc. are ported to Itantium that problem may be reduced.
First of all, there will be bunch of UNIXes, Linux included, for Itanium.
Secondly, Windows64 works for my development purposes right now.
May be they have a problem with some of their infinite 'technologies' -
so I would recommend them abandon their pointless featurism.
>>Secondly why switch from established proven manufacturers, Mips,
MIPS is dead - isn't it? Even SGI dropped them...
BTW I was never impressed by MIPS performance.
>>Sun, IBM and so on to to an unproven product that estamates say, will be more costly.
It's difficult to be more costly than the Sun
All Wintel PPro-NT 3.5 servers and later capitalized on the fact that
Sun and likes are verrry expensive. And their software is expensive too.
That's why NT servers became abundant.
>>The people/companies intel is targeting to buy these thing are not
>>as swayed by inflated Mhz. numbers as the general public seems to be.
That's why if it will prove it's worth, people will use it.
After all, it's just business, not this evergreen PC vs Mac nonsense.
>>On the posative side competition may result in better products all around.
Truly indeed!!!