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 | | From: | Bernd Paysan | | Subject: | Microsoft stops Windows XP on Itanic | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:42:11 +0100 |
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 | According to Heise news (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/54817)
(German), Mircosoft stops Windows XP on Itanic. This isn't a surprise,
since nobody bought Windows XP on Itanic, and even HP doesn't make Itanic
workstations anymore. And Windows is not a server operating system (though
they continue to maintain Windows Server 2003 for Itanic - I doubt that
many systems have been sold).
The last straw that Itanic ever becomes a mainstream CPU is now cut. But I
think that's no news ;-).
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Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
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| | From: | TOUATI Sid | | Subject: | Re: Microsoft stops Windows XP on Itanic | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:29:17 +0100 |
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| Bernd Paysan wrote:
> According to Heise news (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/54817)
> (German), Mircosoft stops Windows XP on Itanic. This isn't a surprise,
> since nobody bought Windows XP on Itanic, and even HP doesn't make Itanic
> workstations anymore. And Windows is not a server operating system (though
> they continue to maintain Windows Server 2003 for Itanic - I doubt that
> many systems have been sold).
>
> The last straw that Itanic ever becomes a mainstream CPU is now cut. But I
> think that's no news ;-).
>
Hello Bernard,
I do not think that the amount of sales is a criteria for the quality of
a processor (do your remember dec alpha ?). Maybe you mean by Itanic as
itanium 1, and everybody knows the story. Now, intel and HP produces
itanium2, and trust me, it is a good high performance processor. Many
HPC are based on such procs (look at top 500).
S
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| | From: | Bernd Paysan | | Subject: | Re: Microsoft stops Windows XP on Itanic | | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:43:24 +0100 |
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| TOUATI Sid wrote:
> I do not think that the amount of sales is a criteria for the quality of
> a processor (do your remember dec alpha ?). Maybe you mean by Itanic as
> itanium 1, and everybody knows the story. Now, intel and HP produces
> itanium2, and trust me, it is a good high performance processor. Many
> HPC are based on such procs (look at top 500).
I wouldn't argue that Itanic 2 isn't good for high performance computing,
but it's not a mainstream processor, and won't become one. The only
processor architecture that is in the top 5 that you can consider a
mainstream processor architecture is the PowerPC architecture (place 1 and
4).
--
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
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