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HP Introduces Final Processor in PA-RISC Family

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the coming-to-an-end dept.

The HP Way writes "According to an article on InformationWeek, HP announced the immediate availability of the 800 MHz, 1.0 GHz, and 1.1 GHz dual-core PA-8900 with 64MB on die L2 cache, the last member of the PA-RISC family of microprocessors. Customers with Superdome chassis can install Itanium 2 CPUs alongside PA-8900 processors."

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  1. Re:HP-UX on an Itanium2-based Mac? by CyricZ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's interesting because it opens up the possibility of bringing high-performance, fault-tolerant computing to the masses. I don't mean the type of "fault-tolerance" (as in it doesn't crash daily) that Linux brings. I mean rock-solid stability that only a true UNIX vendor can provide. I would gladly run HP-UX as my workstation OS if it were affordable. HP-UX and HP-VUE combine to form an amazingly strong workstation environment that's particularly good for software development.

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  2. Re:What about Xeons? by tomstdenis · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yay, all the power of a 2.4Ghz AMD64 using only twice-three times the power and at seven times the cost!

    Go Apple!

    And people wonder why us non-Mac folk don't take them seriously... Cuz in reality the next Intel based Apple laptops will be using [most likely] a sub-3.2Ghz processor which the AMD64 will just totally fucking own on a efficiency/cost basis.

    Tom

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