64 bit linux on Intel T9600

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:27:07PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Jamon
> Camisso<jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > But I'm sure that all IA-64 has caused anyone is headache, heartache, a hole
> > in their wallet, and no small amount of confusion when it comes to
> > x86_64/amd64. The question comes up a few times a day in various distros'
> > irc channels.
> 
> I think this isn't even *remotely* the important heartache that fell from IA-64.
> 
> The *important* heartaches relate to the effective "deaths" of all the
> other 64 bit architectures, and, related, the UNIX vendors.
> 
> - HP stopped updating PA-RISC, throwing their support for ongoing
> hardware enhancement directly into the "IA-64 pit"
> 
> - Alpha and MIPS are fairly much curiosities
> 
> - The only remaining 64 bit architectures that marginally remain are ...
> 
> - PowerPC, which seems to be getting more mainframe-specific over time

Actually powerpc is huge in embedded, gaming, and supercomputers, in
addition to mainframes.

> - SPARC, where it is unclear what Oracle will do with it

Now that, who knows. :)

> All of the above got *severely* "FUDded" by Gartner Group noises to
> the effect that "IA-64 will replace *everything!!!" back in the late
> '90s, and essentially nobody was prepared to commit anything to the
> expectation that any of the above would survive the voyage of the
> Itanic.

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