This really angers me. Linus Torvalds doesn't know a thing about hardware. Check out this <A HREF="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-963447.html" target="_new">link</A> about Linux 2.6 and Torvald's opinion on IA-64. Here's a quote:
Low performing? "I hope it whithers and dies"? This is incredible. He doesn't even know whathe's talking about. He's been hypnotized by AMD fanboys about the so called "bad" performance of IA-64. Wow Linus, I wonder how "bad" it could be considering the Itanium 2 is currently one of the world's highest performing CPU's. And I really love this quote:
<i>"They went for all the things that Intel stands for today"</i>
So, Linus, you're saying Intel stands for "mass market"? It's like he totally ignores the fact that Intel made alot of success with it's Xeons in the corporate & server world, not to mention that Intel is known for it's high quality CPU's, not to mention very reliable and very stable components. Seriously, I believe Linus doesn't even know what he's talking about.
I'm not that surprised really. Most Linux users despise Intel. In fact, alot of rabid AMD fanboys use Linux, since it's free, and open-source.
i know that this is one big ramble, but I would just like to point out that how misinformed some people in the industry really are.
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<font color=green>All good things must come to an end … so they can be replaced by better things! </font color=green>
</i><b>Said by Linus Torvalds</b><i>
"I really dislike IA-64. I think it's a losing strategy," Torvalds said. "My personal hope is that IA-64 withers and dies because there's no point. It performs badly; it's expensive; it's an all-new instruction set."
"The reason Intel was so hugely successful was they went for the mass market, for normal users. They went for all the things that Intel stands for today," he said. AMD is staying truer to that philosophy, he said. "I find AMD's approach a lot more interesting, which is to replace a 32-bit Athlon with a 64-bit Athlon...They come from below and eat up all the high-performance big computers."
Low performing? "I hope it whithers and dies"? This is incredible. He doesn't even know whathe's talking about. He's been hypnotized by AMD fanboys about the so called "bad" performance of IA-64. Wow Linus, I wonder how "bad" it could be considering the Itanium 2 is currently one of the world's highest performing CPU's. And I really love this quote:
<i>"They went for all the things that Intel stands for today"</i>
So, Linus, you're saying Intel stands for "mass market"? It's like he totally ignores the fact that Intel made alot of success with it's Xeons in the corporate & server world, not to mention that Intel is known for it's high quality CPU's, not to mention very reliable and very stable components. Seriously, I believe Linus doesn't even know what he's talking about.
I'm not that surprised really. Most Linux users despise Intel. In fact, alot of rabid AMD fanboys use Linux, since it's free, and open-source.
i know that this is one big ramble, but I would just like to point out that how misinformed some people in the industry really are.
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<font color=green>All good things must come to an end … so they can be replaced by better things! </font color=green>