One question that I have is "was the Itanium really built for windows"? However you will probably not get an Intel Exec to admit this, my bet is the Itanium has made a stance in the HPC arena with Linux. Had they made the open development with the Linux community i.e. like IBM's cell has been doing it might have been accepted more into the community. So other that for HPC what do you want the Itanium to do, be a desktop processor?
But you can't deny the fact that once Itanium was rolled out there was more interest in the x86 community on 64-bit computing; AMD did well on this with their x64 extensions, which rolled later on that year. (I believe that it was within a year maybe not that year) Plus the inherent transport system that AMD rolled as well to allow transparent upgrade to dual core when the technology was still not available (or just to high in price to market) now you have the new Pentiums with the 64MT (--correct sp?) extensions that allow the x64 like performance. So how many versions of M$ winders are you now going to have? I count three, M$ will _love_ to market that. Even though I harp on windows I still use the x64 version of XP Pro on my laptop since you got the free trade in to x64 if you had a valid XP Pro 32-bit license. I have to say the performance for _native_ 64 bit is _really_ good but absolutely bogs when you run as well with the windows-on-windows (Microsoft solution to run 32 bit apps in a 64 bit space) I learned this first hand when I tried to run a 32-bit virus scanner on 64 bit windows (_Dum@$$_Idea_) Games run kind of messed up to sometimes needing a patch like Far Cry did. Or you notice visually that the video will outrun the sound (leisure suit Larry).
My point here is that I've had some mixed haphazard results with it but have been pretty happy once I started getting 64-bit native apps.
So until you get software vendors to ship _native_ software then you will run into this issue a lot!
So what AMD has made now is a market for what I call the 64-bit desktop market and will get vendors more on board to compile 64-bit friendly versions of their software, which will then create the demand for the 64-bit environment that is pretext by the Itanium. Then the drive will be the 64-bit _only_ desktop, followed by a 64-bit only offering by AMD.
Of course who do you know would run the Itanium on the desktop?
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I ran accross this a while back at linuxdevices it is supposed to scale to Petabytes and is the main technology used for the Internet Archive.
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One question that I have is "was the Itanium really built for windows"? However you will probably not get an Intel Exec to admit this, my bet is the Itanium has made a stance in the HPC arena with Linux. Had they made the open development with the Linux community i.e. like IBM's cell has been doing it might have been accepted more into the community. So other that for HPC what do you want the Itanium to do, be a desktop processor? But you can't deny the fact that once Itanium was rolled out there was more interest in the x86 community on 64-bit computing; AMD did well on this with their x64 extensions, which rolled later on that year. (I believe that it was within a year maybe not that year) Plus the inherent transport system that AMD rolled as well to allow transparent upgrade to dual core when the technology was still not available (or just to high in price to market) now you have the new Pentiums with the 64MT (--correct sp?) extensions that allow the x64 like performance. So how many versions of M$ winders are you now going to have? I count three, M$ will _love_ to market that. Even though I harp on windows I still use the x64 version of XP Pro on my laptop since you got the free trade in to x64 if you had a valid XP Pro 32-bit license. I have to say the performance for _native_ 64 bit is _really_ good but absolutely bogs when you run as well with the windows-on-windows (Microsoft solution to run 32 bit apps in a 64 bit space) I learned this first hand when I tried to run a 32-bit virus scanner on 64 bit windows (_Dum@$$_Idea_) Games run kind of messed up to sometimes needing a patch like Far Cry did. Or you notice visually that the video will outrun the sound (leisure suit Larry). My point here is that I've had some mixed haphazard results with it but have been pretty happy once I started getting 64-bit native apps. So until you get software vendors to ship _native_ software then you will run into this issue a lot! So what AMD has made now is a market for what I call the 64-bit desktop market and will get vendors more on board to compile 64-bit friendly versions of their software, which will then create the demand for the 64-bit environment that is pretext by the Itanium. Then the drive will be the 64-bit _only_ desktop, followed by a 64-bit only offering by AMD. Of course who do you know would run the Itanium on the desktop?
Add the new transparent thin-film transistor (TTFT) material to a glass wall and you have the scanner in Total Recall!
How would the UN handle an intergalatic incident on SPAM? ; )