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And for that, I thank them. Intel kept going down the Itanium road until AMD beat them and they were forced to design X86 64 bit processors.

Yup. Large clusters of inexpensive Opterons will stomp all over an Itanium for the same price and power requirements too.

20 posted on 06/26/2007 7:55:31 AM PDT by TChris (The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
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You saw it...the future is in highly distributed computing.


25 posted on 06/26/2007 9:02:19 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * wahoo wa! ... U.Va. Engineering '09)
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