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Coppermine Bug Prevents... Booting?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bah-who-needs-it-anyway dept.

mircea writes "Apparently, a problem with the wafers resulted in a PIII bug that prevents some machines from booting. ZDNet has the story. Dell has stopped shipping Optiplex GX110. So, what happens when you combine a PIII and a i820 chipset? " Let's be honest, how often do you boot anyway? I mean, its only gotta work once, right? *grin*

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  1. I'm thinking Alpha chip here... by weave · · Score: 5
    I'm sitting on a budget of $200,000 to buy new servers at work and I've been wrestling which way to go. The 32-bit Pentium seems to be at the end of its useful life and the Itanium is still years away.

    On the other hand, the 64-bit Alpha processor is still young, but old enough to be proven in the field. I'm wondering.

    I'd like to grab a big Alpha-based muti-processor box with at least a gig of RAM and an external RAID unit with several hundred gigs of storage, all running Alpha Linux. I'm still a bit nervous about Compaq's future plans for the chip though.

    Unfortunately, every single vendor and VAR I talk to actually laughs at me and asks me questions like "Can I ask you why you are not considering an industry standard NT/Intel-based solution?" and "Can you really count on Linux to survive the next few years? Those socialist coders are going to get bored and figure out they can make more money in the real world eventually." (actual conversations) :-(

    Amazing, $200,000 and no one wants to help me spend it or at least listen to what I need instead of selling me their NT-based turnkey product. :(

    It's no wonder Intel and Microsoft are #1 in the world. If you are not very thick-skinned, you get beaten into submission. It reminds me of the old days when getting approval to buy anything but a S/370 based IBM mainframe or S/36 box was near impossible.